Lot 22
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A PAIR OF BRONZE CANDLESTICK HOLDERS IN THE FORM OF STANDING CLASSICAL FEMALE FIGURES
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A PAIR OF BRONZE CANDLESTICK HOLDERS IN THE FORM OF STANDING CLASSICAL FEMALE FIGURES

VENETIAN, 16TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF BRONZE CANDLESTICK HOLDERS IN THE FORM OF STANDING CLASSICAL FEMALE FIGURES
Venetian, 16th century
Each on a later bronze socle and rectangular red and black marble stepped pedestal.
Dark brown patina and lighter high points.
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high
10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) high, overall
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
L. Planiscig, Venezianische Bildhauer der Renaissance, Vienna, 1921.
Padua, Musei Civici, Donatello e il suo tempo. Il bronzetto a Padova nel Quattrocento e nel Cinquecento, 8 April - 15 July 2001, nos. 72-81.
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Lot Essay

With their slightly mannered postures, oval faces and heavy-lidded eyes, these figures are immediately recognisable as coming from the school of Venetian bronze founders in the 16th century. The delicate naturalism of the fruiting foliage of the nozzles is also reminiscent of some of the work of Vincenzo and Gian Gerolamo Grandi, such as the picchiotto, executed by them for Bernardo Cles in the 1530s (Padua, op. cit., pp. 270-271, no. 72).

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