Lot 18
18
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU LAMPE BOUILLOTTE, the plumed finial above a steel shaft with later arrows and green and gilt-decorated tôle shade supported by a stiff-leaf and gadrooned tazza, the engine-turned stem issuing five branches in the form of griffins with arcaded urn-shaped nozzles upon their heads, the stiff-leaf and anthemion shaft upon a gadrooned base with pierced everted rim cast with trailing foliate arabesques, upon a rope-twist plinth base

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU LAMPE BOUILLOTTE, the plumed finial above a steel shaft with later arrows and green and gilt-decorated tôle shade supported by a stiff-leaf and gadrooned tazza, the engine-turned stem issuing five branches in the form of griffins with arcaded urn-shaped nozzles upon their heads, the stiff-leaf and anthemion shaft upon a gadrooned base with pierced everted rim cast with trailing foliate arabesques, upon a rope-twist plinth base
14½in. (37cm.) diam.; 32½in. (82.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

The palmette-enriched chamber candlestick and its 'patera' pan, with basket-weave foot and acanthus-fretted rim, is designed in the early 19th Century 'antique' or 'Empire' style established by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Feceuil de décorations intérieurs, 1801. The 'vase' nozzles are born on scrolled and griffin-headed brackets, which spring from the stem of the plinth-supported tazza with gadrooned bowl.

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