A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

MID-19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
MID-19TH CENTURY
Modelled with a classically-draped cherub and a faun, each with foliate berried branches on a circular stop-fluted base edged with egg-and-dart and stiff leaf, on a cut-cornered base
23½ in. (59.5 cm.) high; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25.5 cm.) deep (2)

來源

Miss Elisabeth Moncreiffe of Moncreiffe (d.1997). Acquired by the latter, by descent either with Moncreiffe House, Perthshire, or with her mother's family, the Ballis, of Switzerland.

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拍品專文

The figures of these candelabra derive from celebrated models executed in the 1770s by Claude Michel Clodion (1738-1814), among which Le satyre enfant courant avec hibou (or young satyr carrying an owl in his right hand), dated 1773. Such models were extremely fashionable in the 19th Century, particularly with English francophile collectors in the 1820s and 1830s.
Related pairs are now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (A. Poulet, G. Scherf, Clodion, Musée du Louvre, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1992, pp. 145-147), in the Residenz, Munich (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et. al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Band I, p. 210, fig. XXVIII) and in the Wallace Collection, London (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture, vol. III, 1996, p. 1226, figs. 241 (F158 and F159).
Closely related pairs of candelabra - albeit with two lights - were sold, Christie's, London, 10 June 2004, lots 133 and 134, and comparable pairs were sold, Christie's, New York, 2 November 2000, lot 1 ($58,750).