MARK OF LOUIS LENHENDRICK, PARIS, ONE 1753, THREE 1754

細節

A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XV SILVER TABLE-CANDLESTICKS
MARK OF LOUIS LENHENDRICK, PARIS, ONE 1753, THREE 1754
Each baluster shaped, on shaped circular base, with moulded border chased and applied at intervals with shells and scrolls, the bases partly fluted and with three vacant rocaille cartouches, the stems chased with floral swags and foliage, the vase-shaped sockets each with shaped circular detachable nozzle with scroll and moulded border, marked under bases, each with the charge mark for small work and gold replacing that for large work, also marked in interior of sockets and on three nozzles, the decharge on one base for small work, the remainder for large work
11¼ in. (28.7 cm.) high
104 oz. (3,264 gr.) (4)

來源

The René Fribourg Collection; Sotheby's London, 17 October 1963, lot 134.

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拍品專文

The maker of this fine set of candlesticks, Louis Lenhendrick, was apprenticed to the illustrious Thomas Germain, Goldsmith to the King at the Galeries du Louvre in 1738, becoming a master in 1747. In 1766 he is listed as a creditor of Thomas Germain's bankrupt son and fellow Royal goldsmith, François-Thomas and it is interesting to note that his claim involved work supplied to the latter.

Candlesticks of this model by Lenhendrick, of which there are a number of examples in private collections and museums around the world, are said to be after a Thomas Germain design (F. Dennis, Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver, the Metropolitan Museum of New York, 1960, p. 224, fig. 224, where the marks illustrated on a similar pair of Lenhendrick candlesticks of 1754 also include the charge mark for small work rather than large work). Indeed, if this is the case, it seems highly probable that, like so many of François-Thomas' designs and models, it was inherited from his father. A pair of candlesticks of the same model by François-Thomas Germain, Paris, 1754 are recorded in the collection of the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (see C. Perrin, Francois Thomas Germain, Orfevres des Rois, Paris, 1903, p. 154). Other similar examples are marked by Guillaume-Alexis Jacob.