A PAIR OF JACOB PETIT GREEN-GROUND FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA EMBLEMATIC OF FIRE AND WATER

CIRCA 1830

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A PAIR OF JACOB PETIT GREEN-GROUND FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA EMBLEMATIC OF FIRE AND WATER
CIRCA 1830
In the neo-Rococo taste, each circular top applied with a central bôbeche and four nozzles formed as the head of Neptune issuing from acanthus, above a Corinthian column painted with spiraling gilt ribbons and garlands above an acanthus knop, the conforming rectangular base with four putti terms holding torches, on a stepped square stand
30 in. (76.2 cm.) high, mounted as lamps (2)

Lot Essay

See Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Porcelain of Paris 1770-1850, Lausanne, 1972, fig. 78 for this form as an integral part of a mantlepiece design by Jacob Petit later executed for the Exhibition of 1834. Also see Adrian Alan, London, Vol III, p. 68 for a similar pair.

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