A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE AND SPECKLED WHITE MARBLE FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE AND SPECKLED WHITE MARBLE FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

Each with a Greek maiden with a fillet in her hair wearing slightly varying tunics, holding a spirally-fluted fruiting and floral urn issuing two scrolling double branches, terminating in stiff-leaf and floral nozzles with gadrooned circular drip-pans, on a canted square plinth and conforming pedestal with stepped cornice and base and fluted canted angles, the sides with rope-twist framed panels, the front with a panel of a pierced fan-motif at the top and base and with chevron bands with ball finials, centred by a later flower-head, above a stepped base
22½in. (57cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A closely related pair with stepped branches and mask-centred pedestal was sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 18 June 1994, lot 87, while a further pair with gilt maidens and a simpler pedestal, from the collection of M. François Catroux, was sold at Sotheby's Monaco, 3 July 1993, lot 70

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