IN THE MANNER OF PERCIER AND FONTAINE, POSSIBLY BY FEUCHÈRE ET CIE.

The bronze 'Aurora' candelabra are designed in the antique manner popularised by C. Percier and P.F.L.Fontaine's Recueil de Decorations Interieurs, 1801. Here the dawn and light-bringing deity bears firebrands, while perched on sphere-capped tripod altars, which display flowered trophies of the sun-deity Apollo's darts, while their sarcophagus-scrolled trusses are wrapped by palms and terminate in festive satyr monopodiae.
This pattern of 'girandoles' with 'brandons' was executed by Pierre-Francois Feuchère (d.1823) and Lucien-Francois Feuchère, the celebrated Parisian 'fabricants de bronzes', who were suppliers to the French court and helped furnish the chteau de Compiègne. They invoiced a pair of these candelabra, green-painted and ormolu-enriched, to William Burrell in 1820 (Lincolnshire Archives Office, MSS - 2Anc 6/202/6).