CIRCA 1785

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, BRONZE AND MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1785
Each with classically-draped lady supporting a reeded cornucopiae issuing scrolled foliate-wrapped branches with eagle-head terminals supporting urn-form nozzles and surmounted by a flaming finial with fruiting wreath, on a cylindrical plinth with relief of putti and square base, drilled for electricty
26¼ in. (67 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 25 April 1998, lot 262.

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Lot Essay

A related pair of candelabra is recorded in the inventory of Général Moreau in 1804:- 'deux candélabres à trois luminaires avec figures en bronze, les socles en marbre blanc 600 Fr'. Now at Fontainebleau, they are illustrated in J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, I, Paris, 1989, no.130. The distinctive eagle-head terminals to the branches of the present candelabra was a motif sometimes employed by the ciseleur-doreur François Rémond.

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