A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND BRONZE TEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA, one with a tazza-bearing bacchante, discarding her thyrsus and tambourine, and borne from the vintage by a satyr, accompanied by his infant; the other with an infant satyr returning the tambourine to a festive cymbal-clashing bacchante seated on a satyr, each supporting a cornucopia issuing ten scrolled branches with foliate nozzles and drip-pans, mounted on an ormolu foliate plinth, (wired for electricity), late 19th century | Christie's

Lot 131

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND BRONZE TEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA, one with a tazza-bearing bacchante, discarding her thyrsus and tambourine, and borne from the vintage by a satyr, accompanied by his infant; the other with an infant satyr returning the tambourine to a festive cymbal-clashing bacchante seated on a satyr, each supporting a cornucopia issuing ten scrolled branches with foliate nozzles and drip-pans, mounted on an ormolu foliate plinth, (wired for electricity), late 19th century

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU AND BRONZE TEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA, one with a tazza-bearing bacchante, discarding her thyrsus and tambourine, and borne from the vintage by a satyr, accompanied by his infant; the other with an infant satyr returning the tambourine to a festive cymbal-clashing bacchante seated on a satyr, each supporting a cornucopia issuing ten scrolled branches with foliate nozzles and drip-pans, mounted on an ormolu foliate plinth, (wired for electricity), late 19th century
43in. (109.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Inspired by the terracotta figures executed by Clodion (Claude Michel, d. 1814) they relate to bronzes manufactured by F. Barbedienne of Boulevard Poissonier, during the second half of the 19th century.

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