A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU, BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, AFTER PIERRE-FRANOIS FEUCHRE

细节

A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU, BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
First quarter 19th Century, after Pierre-Franois Feuchre
Each with a Greek maiden holding in a lowered hand a staff or a club, and in her raised hand a foliate banded quiver issuing four scrolling foliate and floral branches terminating in lotus-leaf nozzles with removable foliate drip-pans, to the centre with a further similar branch with a foliate nozzle with flaming finial, on a stepped plinth with Nike to the front standing on two horse busts and to each side with a caduceus with laurel branches, on a foliate-rimmed base, drilled for electricity
33 in. (84.5 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

Three very similar pairs of candelabra are listed in the sale of the contents of Pierre-Franois Feuchre stock in 1829 as:

Trois paires de girandoles figures dites jambes croises, avec groupes de six lumires; elles sont dores et au vert. Cet article sera divis.

Each pair sold for between 190 and 206 francs.
(H. Ottomeyer, P. Prschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, pp. 334, fig. 5.2.14).