A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU, BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE FIVE-BRANCH CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU, BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE MARBLE FIVE-BRANCH CANDELABRA
Each with a maiden supporting in one hand a part-foliate shaft headed by a dish and issuing four scrolling branches with anthemion ends and terminating in grotesque masks with flame-cast nozzles and circular removable drip-pans, to the centre with a conforming nozzle on a palmette band, on a stepped circular plinth with milled moulding, both marble bases with restored chip, one anthemion finial lacking
40 in. (102 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

These bronze vestals with plaited dresses relate to candelabra figures supplied to the marchand mercier Dominique Daguerre in the late 1780s by the celebrated French fondeur Franois Rémond (d. 1812) (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, vol. III, pp. 1273-5, n. 251, F142-3 and F146-7). The same patterned figures, bearing cornucopiae rather than torchères, featured on candelabra from the collection of Lord Michelham, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 21-22 May 1978, lot 232.

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