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The figures were modelled by J.J. Kändler in 1749
A pair of candelabra in the Wrightsman Collection has similar figures (F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Metropolitan Museum, 1966, vol.II, nos.257A and B)
The Dodge Collection was formed in the early 1930's by Mrs Anna Thomson Dodge, widow of Horace Dodge, who founded the famous motor company with his brother. With the advice of Lord Duveen and Mr Martin Becker of Messrs Alavoine she assembled a superb collection of French furniture and works of art, which were brought together in the elegant Louis XVI château at Grosse Pointe, on the outskirts of Detroit, built for her between 1932 and 1936 by Horace Trumbauer. Through Duveen she acquired what were to be the masterpieces of her collection: works of art from the Russian Imperial Collections that Duveen had purchased from the Russian government in 1930, including Empress Maria Feodorovna's porcelain-mounted bureau plat by Carlin (24 June 1971, lot 134; sold again in these Rooms, 1 December 1983, and acquired at that sale by the J. Paul Getty Museum).
On her death in 1970 Mrs Dodge left the contents of the Music Room to the Detroit Institute of Art. The remainder was sold in these Rooms 24 June 1971 and at Christie's house sale at Rose Terrace, 27-29 September 1971
A pair of candelabra in the Wrightsman Collection has similar figures (F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Metropolitan Museum, 1966, vol.II, nos.257A and B)
The Dodge Collection was formed in the early 1930's by Mrs Anna Thomson Dodge, widow of Horace Dodge, who founded the famous motor company with his brother. With the advice of Lord Duveen and Mr Martin Becker of Messrs Alavoine she assembled a superb collection of French furniture and works of art, which were brought together in the elegant Louis XVI château at Grosse Pointe, on the outskirts of Detroit, built for her between 1932 and 1936 by Horace Trumbauer. Through Duveen she acquired what were to be the masterpieces of her collection: works of art from the Russian Imperial Collections that Duveen had purchased from the Russian government in 1930, including Empress Maria Feodorovna's porcelain-mounted bureau plat by Carlin (24 June 1971, lot 134; sold again in these Rooms, 1 December 1983, and acquired at that sale by the J. Paul Getty Museum).
On her death in 1970 Mrs Dodge left the contents of the Music Room to the Detroit Institute of Art. The remainder was sold in these Rooms 24 June 1971 and at Christie's house sale at Rose Terrace, 27-29 September 1971