SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Second half 19th Century
Modelled with figures of bacchantes, scantily clad in rams' pelts and garlanded with vines, holding aloft the conforming branches, on swagged cylindrical white marble plinths, re-gilded
26in. (66cm.) high, overall (2)

Provenance

Acquired from William Redford, London, 1990.

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Lot Essay

Dancing bacchantae, clad in bacchic rams-pelts, hold aloft candle-vases issuing from vines and celebrate the Autumnal harvest festival of the wine-deity Bacchus. Their vine-garlanded marble altar-pedestals comprise plinth-supported pillars wreathed by pearls and poetic laurels.
These pelt-clad bacchantae relate to a model by Louis-Simon Boizot (d. 1809), Louis XVI's 'sculpteur du roi', that featured on a clock executed in the mid 1790's by the bronze-founder Rémond (G. Scherf et al, Louis-Simon Boizot, Paris, 2001, p. 291, fig. 14).

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