ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, CIRCA 1810

細節

A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU NINE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, CIRCA 1810
Each with a circular tazze with gadrooned rim supporting foliage and leaf-tip wrapped branches, on a concave-sided tripartite support headed by a composite capital with lion-head volute supports, decorated with torch-bearing classically draped maidens, on winged sphinx supports with paw feet and a concave-sided tripartite plinth with stiff-leaf cast edge, one candelabrum lacking two nozzles
23½ in. (60 cm.) high; 16½ in. (42 cm.) diameter (2)

來源

King Umberto II of Italy, from whom purchased by the grandfather of the present owner.

出版

R. Guedes, Reais Mesas do Norte de Portugal, Lisbon, 1997, 'Mesa Casa de Saboia', pp. 22-29.

展覽

Porto, Alfândega, Reais Mesas do Norte de Portugal, 1995.

注意事項

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

The design of these tazze derives directly from a drawing for a porcelain and ormolu table of the celebrated architects and ornemanistes C. Percier and P.F.L. Fontaine. It was first illustrated in their Recueil de Décorations Intérieures, Paris, 1801-1812, pl. XXI.
A closely related pair, though lacking the candle branches and decorated with bronze ornamentation on a steel body, is in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, vol.I, p.362 fig.5.12.1), while another is in Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden (illustrated G. Haase and G. Reinheckel, Kunsthandwerk des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, 1978, p.157. fig. E.26). An almost identical pair, with associated pierced baskets, was sold at Christie's New York, 22 May 2002, lot 385.