SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
SECOND QUARTER 19TH Century
Each with a dancing bacchic putto standing on a naturalistically modelled socle with upturned pitcher and cymbals, each holding aloft spirally fluted cornucopiae branches with vine nozzles, on a columnar rouge griotte marble base, with laurel wreath and square plinth
17 in. (43 cm.) high; 9½ in. (24 cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

This model of candelabra, often associated with the oeuvre of the sculpteur Claude Michel, dit Clodion, enjoyed enormous success in both the 18th and 19th Century. It was particularly admired by English connoisseurs throughout the 19th Century, with many of the candelabra remaining in the same distinguished collections until fairly recently. These include the pair recorded in the possession of the comtesse de Flahaut at Coventry House, London in 1863 and subsequently sold by the Trustees of the Meiklour Settlement, Christie's London, 11 June 1992, lot 50, as well as those sold by the 6th Lord Ashburton, K.C.V.O., Christie's London, 19 March 1964, lot 58. A further pair, purchased by a Mr. Fortnum in London in 1852 from the collection of Léopold I, King of the Belgians, is now at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Two almost identical pairs, both with rouge griotte marble bases, were sold at Christie's London, 10 June 2004, lots 133 and 134.

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