ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE, CIRCA 1810

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE, CIRCA 1810
Modelled with classically draped standing female figures, supporting engine-milled candle sockets and drip-pans, the central sockets modelled as flaming ewers on triform bases with ribbon-tied wreath mounts, on paw feet and concave platforms, conceived for a mantelpiece
25¼ in. (64.2 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

By family tradition, Grand Duchess Mariia Nikolaevna, daughter of Tsar Nicholas I, who married Maximilien de Beauharnais, Duke of Leuchtenburg, the Mariinskii Palace, St. Petersburg.

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Lot Essay

This pair of candelabra in the antique fashion of the French Empire relates to a pair of candelabra delivered on 23 December 1809 by the bronzier Claude Galle (d. 1815) for the Boudoir of the Petit Trianon at Versailles (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.II, p.705, fig.21).

With their unusual shallow depth to the reverse, these candelabra were clearly intended as a garniture de cheminée'.

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