A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND RED GRIOTTE MARBLE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1825

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A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND RED GRIOTTE MARBLE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Circa 1825
Each in the form of a winged female figure, her left foot forward, holding aloft an acanthus-wrapped vase issuing a central branch and six acanthus-sheathed branches, the volute of each set with a flowerhead, with reeded drip-pans, on a plinth with stepped top and base, each side set with a ribbon-tied laurel and berry wreath, electrified, the patinated base of the central candle arm replaced
46in. (117cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

These candelabra, their winged figures emblematic of Victory, relate to a design executed by the architect Charles Percier as part of a commission to furnish Empress Josephine's bedroom at the chteau de Saint-Cloud (illustrated in M.L. Myers, French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1991, pp. 157-160, cat. 98). The model is particularly associated with the work of Pierre-Philippe Thomire (d.1743), the most famous bronzier of the Empire period.

Related figures and bases feature on a pair of candelabra attributed to Pierre Victor Ledure in Schloss Ellingen, illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Prschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 328, fig. 5.17.4.

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