CIRCA 1800 AND REGILT, ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE

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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE CANDLESTICKS
CIRCA 1800 AND REGILT, ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE
Now converted to form lamps with yellow pleated silk shade supplied by Alberto Pinto, the baluster engine-turned nozzle supported by three caryatid figures with Egyptian headdress and reeded tapering conical shaft, on an engine-turned and stiff-leaf moulded circular socle, drilled for electricity
29¼ in. (74.5cm.) high overall, including shade (2)

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拍品专文

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) .