A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS, NOW MOUNTED AS BOUILLOTE LAMPS

THE CANDLESTICKS CIRCA 1780

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS, NOW MOUNTED AS BOUILLOTE LAMPS
The candlesticks circa 1780
Each beaded drip-pan above a fluted urn-shaped bobèche with acanthus sheathed body on a waisted foot, the waisted husk stop-fluted stem with laurel leaves to the shoulder, hung with laurel and berry swags from reels, above a laurel and berry torus knop, on a circular base with raised, domed acanthus-sheathed and beaded center and reed- gadrooned edge, surmounted by a later green-painted and gilt tôle shade with arrow adjustment screw and flame finial, electrified
10¾in. (27cm.) height of candlesticks, 22¾in. (58cm.) height of lamp, 15 (38cm.) diameter (2)

Lot Essay

With their distintive domed acanthus-wrapped socle with reed-gadrooned border, the bases of these candlesticks relate to the documented oeuvre of the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, possibly after a design by Jean-Demosthène Dugourc (1749-1825). A pair of candlesticks which display this model of base are in the Wallace Collection, London (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, F174-5, p.1249-50). The Wallace model is first recorded on 26 June 1783, when the ciseleur-fondeur François Rémond invoiced Daguerre Pour fonte, facon Et Dorure mate d'une pre de grands flambeaux a 4. figures, Et a guirlandes et fleur, Etc 1050 livres. Thus Rémond executed the casting, chasing and gilding to the direct order of Daguerre, who in all probability owned the master model.

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