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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1795

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A PAIR OF DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1795
Each with a Corinthian column headed by a central gadrooned torch issuing three foliate-wrapped scrolled branches with circular drip-pans and tooled nozzles, above a plinth centred by Medusa masks and foliate-decorated circular base, one branch restored, lacking one drip-pan
18½ in. (47 cm.) high; 5¾ in. (14.5 cm.) diameter, the base (2)
來源
By repute, Ambassador David K.E. Bruce and Evangeline Bell Bruce.
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.

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A related example featuring a virtually identical rosette-headed Corinthian column and a sunflower-decorated stepped plinth is in the château de Fontainebleau and illustrated in G. Henriot, Le Luminaire de la renaissance au XIXème siècle, Paris, 1933, pl.202, no.4, while a further related example is illustrated in C. Bizot, Mobilier Directoire et Empire, Paris, 1976, p.71.

David Kirkpatrick Este Bruce (1898-1977) served as ambassador to France from 1949 to 1952, West Germany from 1957 to 1959 and the United Kingdom from 1961 to 1969.