拍品 71
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An Italian bronze eighteen-light candelabrum centre-piece
An Italian bronze eighteen-light candelabrum centre-piece

DESIGNED BY GIUSEPPE MICHIELI, CIRCA 1870

细节
An Italian bronze eighteen-light candelabrum centre-piece
Designed by Giuseppe Michieli, Circa 1870
Surmounted by a lion of Saint Mark flanked by eighteen scroll and leaf-cast arms, on a spreading baluster column cast with ram's masks and musical trophies, above bands of putti, chimerae and moors, the triform foot mounted to each corner with a hippocampus, supporting a chained slave, flanking panels with putti, above a frieze with satyr masks, on an acanthus-cast stepped base, each side with a garland and mask apron, on three paw feet
60.2/3 in. (154 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) diameter

拍品专文

An almost identical candelabrum was exhibited at the 1867 Paris Expostion Universelle. The design is reproduced in The Illustrated Catalogue of the Universal Exhibition and referred to as "The Bronze chandelier, a work of true Art, is the production of Joseph Michieli, a distinguished artist-manufacturer of Venice".

A pair of identical candelabra, on further bases, stamped Guggenheim, were sold Sotheby's London, 27 February 1998, lot 292. M. Guggenheim is suggested to be the Venice based dealer who retailed them.