A PAIR OF LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR (Lots 13-15)

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1765

In the manner of Jean-Charles Delafosse, each with pierced tripartite foliate-cast C-shaped branches fitted with beaded flutted bobêches and hung with laurel swags centering a flambeau finial, the branches ending in hairy cloven feet on an acanthus-cast domed socle and outset rounded plinth (drilled for electricity)-12¾in. (32.7cm.) high
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來源

Major-General Sir George Burns, North Mymm's Park, Hertfordshire, sold Christie's 24 September 1979, lot 34
Sotheby's New York, 7 May 1983, lot 56

拍品專文

An identical pair of candelabra is in the Jones Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. I, pp. 186-187, fig. 3. 9. 4. Other examples were in the collection of Joseph Bardac, sold Galérie Georges Petit, Paris, 9 December 1927, lot 86 and again at Parke-Bernet Galleries, 8-9 November 1957, lot 328, another pair is reproduced in Le 18e Siècle Français: Collection Connaissance des Arts, 1956, p.130, fig. 8.