Lot Essay
A pair of candelabra of this model, but with different candle-branches, is in the salon de famille at Compiègne and was included in the 1817 inventory.
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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA, each in the form of a lady in classical dress, one facing to the left, the other to the right, holding aloft a cornucopia from which issue five scrolled branches cast with acanthus and anthemia, with drip-pans cast with stiff leaves and turned nozzles, the central nozzle with anthemia and lotus-leaf-cast shaft on cylindrical porphyry plinth and foliate-cast base, with later giltwood and simulated marble slightly spreading cylindrical base in the Empire style (not illustrated)
44in. (112cm.) high; the later base 29½in. (75cm.) high (2)
44in. (112cm.) high; the later base 29½in. (75cm.) high (2)