A PAIR OF FINE LOUIS XVI SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF FINE LOUIS XVI SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
PARIS, 1783, MAKER'S MARK OF PIERRE-FRANCOIS GOGUELYE, ONE NOZZLE A REPLACEMENT

From a design by Lalonde and Delafosse, each on circular domed base cast and chased with bands of tied laurel enclosing radiating flutes, rising to part-fluted pedestal stems applied with laurel swags and chased with bands of acanthus, guilloche and waterleaves with paterae at intervals, the sockets chased with flutes and husks above applied beaded bands, each with three acanthus scroll branches issuing from central fluted pedestal standards with lion masks between, supporting elaborate flame finials, each branch supporting circular laurel drip pans and fluted laurel sockets with removable nozzles, fully marked; struck with the charge and discharge of Henri Clavel--18¼in. (46.4cm.) high
(153oz.)
來源
J. Baur, Paris, 1966
展覽
Friends of the Museum Collect, Philadelphia Museum of Art, February, 1967, cat. no. 108
French Eighteenth Century Silver from the Collection of Rodolphe and Williamina Meyer de Schauensee, Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 29, 1990-January 20, 1991

拍品專文

An identical pair of two-light candelabra by the same maker was sold Christie's, Geneva, November 12, 1990. The same model was used by Gabriel Gerbu for a pair of three-light candelabra of 1787 in the Musée des Arts Decoratifs and illustrated in Mabille, Orfèvrerie Française des XVIe XVIIe VIIIe Siècles, Paris, 1984, no. 106.