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拍品专文
Claude-Frangois Rabiat (d. 1815), was apprenticed to Etienne Vignerelle in 1769 and established as maître in 1778. He regularly provided a variety of clocks and candelabra to other accomplished bronziers and horlogers including Thomire, Feuchère and Claude Galle. An example of this practice is firmly established through a documented pair of identical candelabra delivered on 23 December 1809 by the bronzier Claude Galle for the Boudoir of the Petit Trianon at Versailles. The inventory states Une Paire de Candélabras figures aillées, bronzées, sur une demi boule à feuilles, quatre branches tete de zéphir dorés en or mat. Prix demandé 600F. Règalé 590F.. These Petit Trianon candelabra are illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, p.35, and H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Band II, p.705, fig.21. Further information on Rabiat can be found in D. Ledous-Lebard, 'Rabiat', L'Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, April 1991, p. 91.
A related pair of candelabra, though with a basket-weave pedestal raised on a stepped plinth base, attributed to Galle were sold by a Private Maryland Collector in these Rooms, 24 May 2001, lot 53.
A related pair of candelabra, though with a basket-weave pedestal raised on a stepped plinth base, attributed to Galle were sold by a Private Maryland Collector in these Rooms, 24 May 2001, lot 53.