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See previous footnote for lot 281.
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A PAIR OF FRENCH NEO-CLASSIC STYLE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE GRIOTTE MARBLE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED F. LEVILLAIN
Each cast as an urn with a continuous shallow relief band of classical mythology headed by rams-heads suspending fruiting festoons flanked by fluted handles beneath a waisted flaring neck supporting a standard issuing foliate-cast candlearms ending in circular drip-pans with vine cast bobêches surmounted by a heron, raised on tripartite monopodia supports headed by busts of Hercules, on a conforming base--32¼in. (82cm.) high (2)
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, SIGNED F. LEVILLAIN
Each cast as an urn with a continuous shallow relief band of classical mythology headed by rams-heads suspending fruiting festoons flanked by fluted handles beneath a waisted flaring neck supporting a standard issuing foliate-cast candlearms ending in circular drip-pans with vine cast bobêches surmounted by a heron, raised on tripartite monopodia supports headed by busts of Hercules, on a conforming base--32¼in. (82cm.) high (2)
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