POSSIBLY BY CLAUDE GALLE, CIRCA 1810

With their winged figures of Victory supporting palmette-enriched scrolling branches terminating in winged terms, these candelabra are closely related to the documented oeuvre of the bronzier Claude Galle. On 23 December 1809, Galle delivered une paire de candelabres figures ailées, bronzées sure une demi boule à feuilles d'eau ciselées dorés en or mat for the Boudoir of the Petit Trianon at Versailles, and these are almost identical to the offered candelabra, save for the design of the base, which is a stepped rectangular pedestal below a demi-orb. These Petit Trianon candelabra are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Band II, p.705, fig.21.