A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu and white marble figural seven-light candelabra

THE FIGURES AFTER LOUIS-SIMON BOIZOT, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu and white marble figural seven-light candelabra
The figures after Louis-Simon Boizot, Third quarter 19th Century
Each modelled with figures of Flora and Zephyr supporting a bouquet of leafy stems with flowers and flower-form nozzles, on a circular plinth applied with swags, over a laurel-wreath foot and square base
42¾ in. (108.5 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

These candelabra are related to a model for a Sèvres group of 'Flore et Zephyr' supplied by Louis-Simon Boizot, who was director of sculpture at Sèvres, in 1774 (see E. Bourgeois and G. Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Recueil des modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIeSiècle, Vol. I, p. 23, no. 311).

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