拍品 17
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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU TWELVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, each with stiff-leaf-cast central nozzle enclosed by one tier of five acanthus-cast reeded scrolling arms with lotus-leaf-cast drip-pans and plain nozzles, the foliate cast waisted stem with foliate-cast corona above six further scrolling foliate branches centred by rosette patera, upon a circular gadrooned and beaded socle with trailing Bacchic frieze of vines, supported upon a reeded spreading Corinthian column and domed lotus leaf and acanthus cast base, the triangular spreading panelled plinth mounted with bacchic nymphs flanked by foliate arabesques on stiff-leaf cast monopodiae and on a canted triangular base, both signed THOMIRE A PARIS, one drip pan replaced

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU TWELVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, each with stiff-leaf-cast central nozzle enclosed by one tier of five acanthus-cast reeded scrolling arms with lotus-leaf-cast drip-pans and plain nozzles, the foliate cast waisted stem with foliate-cast corona above six further scrolling foliate branches centred by rosette patera, upon a circular gadrooned and beaded socle with trailing Bacchic frieze of vines, supported upon a reeded spreading Corinthian column and domed lotus leaf and acanthus cast base, the triangular spreading panelled plinth mounted with bacchic nymphs flanked by foliate arabesques on stiff-leaf cast monopodiae and on a canted triangular base, both signed THOMIRE A PARIS, one drip pan replaced
47½in. (121cm.) high; 19in. (40cm.) wide; 13½in. (34.5cm.) deep (2)

拍品專文

The immediate prototype for this pair of candelabra was most likely the set of four candelabra supplied by Thomire in 1811 for the Cabinet Intérieur of the Emperor in the Tuileries. The painter David and Baron Denon were influential in the design of these candelabra which now stand in the Grand Trianon, Versailles, and are illustrated and discussed D. Cohen, 'Pierre-Philippe Thomire - Unternehmer und Künstler', Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. II, pp. 662-663, fig. 5. The role of Baron Denon is particularly interesting as the form of the candelabra largely derives from a Roman marble candelabrum, embellished with arabesque Erotes, that is now in the Vatican Museum, illustrated 'The Vatican Collections', Exhibition Catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26 February - 12 June 1983, fig. 59.

A similar pair of candelabra by Thomire, supplied to the Prince Regent by B. L. Vulliamy in 1817 at a cost of #343 2s., was exhibited Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Exhibition Catalogue, Carlton House, 'The Past Glories of George IV's Palace', 1991-92, no. 47