A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA, each with central tapering stem surmounted by a flaming finial, with three scrolled panelled arms supported on hairy hoofed monopodiae and enriched with husk trails, the laurel-cast drip-pans with foliate-cast swollen nozzles, the body adorned with laurel swags, on rounded base, foliate- cast domed socle and eared circular plinth base, drilled for electricity

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA, each with central tapering stem surmounted by a flaming finial, with three scrolled panelled arms supported on hairy hoofed monopodiae and enriched with husk trails, the laurel-cast drip-pans with foliate-cast swollen nozzles, the body adorned with laurel swags, on rounded base, foliate- cast domed socle and eared circular plinth base, drilled for electricity
14¼in. (36.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Related examples of this celebrated 'goût Grec' model were sold from the collection of Major-General Sir George Burns, Christie's house sale, North Mymms Park, Herfordshire, 24 September, 1979, lot 34 and again at Sotheby's New York, 7 May 1983, lot 56; from the collection of Joseph Bordac, Galerie Georges Petit, lot 86.
An identical pair of candelabra are in the Jones Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum (W.985 and 985A - one illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, vol.1, fig.3.9.4.)

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