LATE 18TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU AND ALABASTRO FIORITO CANDELABRUM
Late 18th Century
Depicting Bachuss with arms raised below scrolling foliage, on a stepped plinth base with egg-and-dart, beaded and foliate bands, each side with a low relief of Cupid, lacking branches and nozzles
11 in. (28 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The elegant figure of Bacchus, the wine-deity celebratrating the vintage, is designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses.
An identical Italian figure with the same mounts on the base, differing only in its use of lapis lazuli for the pedestal, and supporting an agate tazza, was sold from the collection of the late Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, Christie's King Street, 14 December 2000, lot 1 (£119,250 inc. premium). It was accompanied by a companion Bacchante.

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