A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV STYLE ORMOLU AND ROCK CRYSTAL SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV STYLE ORMOLU AND ROCK CRYSTAL SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
In the style of André-Charles Boulle, each with an obelisk finial above two tiers of candlearms, the upper tier suspending prisms and the lower tier ending in rock crystal drip-pans and nozzles, on a scrolling tripartite base mounted with sphinxes and divided with lambrequins, on fluted square feet
27¼in. (67.5cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, Palm Beach, sold Sotheby's New York, 5 May 1984, lot 151
Literature
F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol. III, 1966, p. 55, no. 298 A-B

Lot Essay

Similar pairs of candelabra with tripartite sphinx bases were sold Christie's London, 17 March 1960, lot 41, and formerly in the collection of Mme. Jacques Barzin (illustrated in Connoisseur, January 1964, p.8, fig.9).