CIRCA 1800

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1800
Each with standing vine draped figures covered with lion and rams skins, holding aloft a vine entwined shaft surmounted by rams heads and issuing trumpet-shaped branches terminating in vine embellished nozzles below a central twin-handled urn with associated nozzle, and on a hexagonal stepped base applied with allegorical draped figures and swagged vine panels on a foliate and palmette-filled base border
43¾ in. (111 cm.) high; 14¼ in. (36.5 cm.) diameter (2)

來源

Le Fuel collection, Paris.
Bergé, Paris, 25 June 2008, lot 228, where acquired by the present owner.

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Giles Forster

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The present candelabra are virtually identical to a pair sold in the Soviet sales of Imperial Russian furniture and works of art at Rudolph Lepke, 'Kunstwerke aus den beständen Leningrader Museen und Schlösser Eremitage, Palais Michailoff, Gatschina U.A.', Berlin, 6 November 1928, lots 131-2 (ill. in R. Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus Berlin, W.35, Katalog 2000, p.49, no.131-32 and Tafel 59 and reproduced here). A further closely related candelabrum is in the Ministère de la Guerre, Paris and illustrated in E. Dumonthier, Les Bronzes du Mobilier National: Bronzes d'Eclairage et de Chauffage, Paris, 1911, pl.29, fig. 4, while other related examples sold at auction include a pair - albeit with a simpler white marble base - sold Tajan, Paris, 5 April 2001, lot 233.