CIRCA 1780

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND PINK MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1780
Each with a garlanded neo-classical vase with rams' masks above a stiff-leaf cup and a waisted base with a cut-cornered plinth, the pinched neck issuing the lily-spray branches with circular drip-pans
40 ½ in. (103 cm.) high; 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) wide; 10 ½ in. (27 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Collection of Mme. Camille Lelong, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 27 - May 1, 1903, lot 340.
Acquired from Jacques Helft, 30 April 1909.

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Lot Essay

The use of distinctive lily-spray branches was au courant from the 1780s, and featured for instance on François-Joseph Bélanger's design for a mantelpiece garniture, now in the musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, 4.11.13). An identical pair of candelabra, but with white marble bodies, was sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 4 March 1984, lot 445.

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