CIRCA 1800 AND REGILT, ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE

The original design for these caryatid candlesticks remains in the musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. From an album of Parisian bronziers designs, the design is puiblished in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p.326, fig.5.1.7.. This model may be attributable to the bronzier Claude Galle. In 1799 Une paire de flambeaux à trois têtes valued at FF48. was recorded in his workshop, whilst in 1804 Galle supplied to Fontainebleau,'2 paires à trois têtes' at a cost of 264 livres (J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, 1, Paris, 1989, no.155) .