A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BLEU TURQUIN MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDLEABRA

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BLEU TURQUIN MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDLEABRA
One lacking candle arms, each with a draped standing female figure issuing a spirally twisted cornucopia with a canted collar and S-shaped branches, gadrooned and channelled nozzles and removable drip-pans centred by a pine cone finial and foliate scrolls, on a cylindrical base with beaded moulding and issuing floral swags above an entrelac moulding and on a square plinth, one drip-pan possibly associated, the marble possibly originally with further mounts
25 in. (65 cm.) high; 9 in. (23 cm.) wide (2)

拍品专文

These elegant candelabra, recalling the adage of the Roman poet Terence 'Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus', comprise festive bacchantes that bear torch-like thyrsi issuing from Ceres' cornucopiae. The pose of the loosely girdled nymphs derives from the celebrated Callipygian Venus. Other pairs of candelabra of this model were sold from the collection of the late Mrs. Diana Gubbay in these Rooms, 15 May 1969, lot 41, and from the Gutzwiller Collection, Sotheby's London, 12 December 1996, lot 183.