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'OBSESSION' AND 'RÊVE', A PAIR OF GILT BRONZE CANDELABRA
CAST FROM A MODEL BY MAURICE BOUVAL, CIRCA 1898
each of an art nouveau maiden emerging from swirling base, supporting scrolling vines terminating in sconces cast as irises, on shaped mottled black and green onyx bases, signed in the bronze, stamped foundry seal for Thiebau Frères
18in. (45.5cm.) high (2)
CAST FROM A MODEL BY MAURICE BOUVAL, CIRCA 1898
each of an art nouveau maiden emerging from swirling base, supporting scrolling vines terminating in sconces cast as irises, on shaped mottled black and green onyx bases, signed in the bronze, stamped foundry seal for Thiebau Frères
18in. (45.5cm.) high (2)
Literature
C.f. Alastair Duncan, Paris Salons 1895-1914, Objets D'art and Metalware, Antique Collectors' Club, Suffolk, 1999, vol.v., p.126 for illustration of this pair of candelabra in silver, exhibited at La Societé des Artistes Franais in 1898.