Lot Essay
Alfred-Emmmanuel-Louis Beurdeley is recorded as working in Paris between 18__and 1895. (Christopher Paine, Nineteenth Century Furniture, 1985, pp. 33-34)
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A PAIR OF LARGE NAPOLEON III PATINATED AND GILT-BRONZE SEVENTEEN-LIGHT FIGURAL CANDELABRA
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY, BY ALFRED-EMMANUEL-LOUIS BEURDELEY
Each with scantily clad putti supporting an acanthus-cast standard, with meandering vines, issuing sinuous acanthus-cast candlearms and drip pans with ovoid bobêches, one with armorial trophies, the other with agricultural symbols and musical instruments above gadrooned and acanthus leaf-cast urn and socle, mounted on a stepped octagonal marble plinth, inscribed 'BY' in the interior of the socle --66in. (167cm.) high, 37in. (94cm.) high (2)
THIRD QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY, BY ALFRED-EMMANUEL-LOUIS BEURDELEY
Each with scantily clad putti supporting an acanthus-cast standard, with meandering vines, issuing sinuous acanthus-cast candlearms and drip pans with ovoid bobêches, one with armorial trophies, the other with agricultural symbols and musical instruments above gadrooned and acanthus leaf-cast urn and socle, mounted on a stepped octagonal marble plinth, inscribed 'BY' in the interior of the socle --66in. (167cm.) high, 37in. (94cm.) high (2)