A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA

SIGNED AND DATED 'HENRI DASSON 1882'

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA
SIGNED AND DATED 'HENRI DASSON 1882'
Each with a youth blowing a horn and holding foliate scrolling branches terminating in circular drip-pans and part-fluted and foliate-capped nozzles with removable drip-pans, on a rocky outcrop and a stepped base with gadrooning and a white marble plinth with ribbon-twist band, signed to the right side of the base, the drip-pans later, drilled for electricity, the drip-pans later
19 in. (48 cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

This model of candelabra was particularly favoured by English collectors and a number of the 18th Century examples that survive in English country house collections were most probably sold by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, Poirier's successor, who came to London in 1787 at the invitation of the Prince Regent. The rights to this model may originally have belonged to Poirier who delivered to Madame du Barry in 1770 'une paire de girandoles à trois branches en bronze doré d'or moulu ornées de figures de porcelaine de France 624 livres'. The model was subsequently frequently copied in the 19th Century.

For a note on Henri Dasson, please see lot 106 in this sale.