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A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu nine-light candelabra
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE PENNSYLVANIA FAMILY (lots 255-257)
A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu nine-light candelabra

AFTER A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE GOUTHIÈRE, CIRCA 1860-70

細節
A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu nine-light candelabra
After a model attributed to Pierre Gouthière, Circa 1860-70
Each with central stem above two tiers of acanthus-sheathed spirally-fluted and scrolled branches, with leaf-cast drip-pans and nozzles, supported on triple rams' monopodiae, hung with 'embroidered' tasselled penants and floral swags at the top and enclosing a triple-handled amphora with central band cast with cloudborne putti, on triform base and spreading feet enclosing floral-garlanded recessed Apollo masks, on triform plinth with guilloche edge
41in. (104cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

These finely-cast candelabra are copies of the model attributed to Pierre Gouthière and supplied probably by the marchand-mercier Darnault for Marie-Antoinette's Salon du Jeu at the Petit-Trianon in 1785 (see P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 99, fig. 111).