A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BRONZE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

THE BRONZE FIGURES PROBABLY LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BRONZE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
The bronze figures probably late 17th Century
One in the form of a classical male figure, his hair wreathed with ivy, draped with a cloth, the other in the form of a classical female with tied-back hair and draped in a tunic, each holding aloft a cornucopia issuing scrolling and foliate branches with beaded drip-pans and engine-turned nozzles and centred by a Bacchic thrysus with entwined serpent, the pine-cone finial drilled for electricity, one nozzle replaced, and the same figure with repairs to one leg, both figures previously with plinths, drilled for electricity
50 in. (127.5 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Probably acquired by the vendor through the London decorator Felix Harbord in the 1960s.

Sale room notice

This lot has been withdrawn.
It will be re-offered on 23 June 1999 Important European Furniture sale.

Lot Essay

The cornucopia bearing nymph, here accompanied by an ivy-wreathed faun, relates to that of a Louis XVI candelabrum in the Wallace Collection, (F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection Catalogues, Furniture, London, 1956, p. 90, pl. 18).
A sketch for a similar candelabrum, which is presumed to have come from the Parisien dealer Daguerre's catalogue, and which is now in the Muse des arts dcoratifs, Paris, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, et. al., P. Prschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 283, fig. 4.14.4.

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