A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE CANDLESTICKS

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 363-384) This distinctive collection of French furniture and works of art was assembled in Paris in the first half of the 20th century. Until the late 1940's it furnished the lavish rooms of an hôtel particulier , rue de la Faisanderie, in the 16ème arrondissement. The black and white photographs taken in the 1930's illustrate in situ many of the lots offered here.

A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE CANDLESTICKS

IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-DEMOSTHENE DUGOURC, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE CANDLESTICKS
IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-DEMOSTHENE DUGOURC, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a tapering shaft with female monopodiae capital and feet, with tooled drip-pan and nozzle, above a foliate-cast circular base
11¾ in. (30 cm.) high; 5½ in. (14 cm.) diameter (29)

Provenance

Rue de la Faisanderie, Paris, until the late 1940's.
Thence by descent.

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