Lot 212
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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

EARLY 19TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
EARLY 19TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE
Each with a classical maiden holding a laurel wreath and headed by a palmette cup, surmounted by a palmette and anthemion-cast baluster-shaped central candle-holder, flanked by foliate-wrapped branches with circular drip-pans, and crenilated nozzles, on a canted rectangular pink granite base, with paw feet and a later circular plinth
35 in. (89 cm.) high (2)
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Lot Essay

The design for the female supports, classically draped and holding in one hand a laurel wreath, is identical to that of a pair of candelabra delivered by Claude Galle (d. 1815) in 1807 for the chambre de l'Impératrice at Fontainebleau for which he charged 2500 francs, later reduced to 2400 francs (see J.P. Samoyault, Musée National du château de Fontainebleau: Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, p. 157, cat. 135). Another pair of candelabra with figural supports of the same design is in the Palazzo Reale, Turin (illustrated S. Rasponi et al., Orologi negli arredi del Palazzo Reale di Torino, Turin, 1988, p. 156).

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