A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND BLEU TURQUIN MARBLE TEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA

AFTER THE MODEL BY PIERRE GOUTHIERE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND BLEU TURQUIN MARBLE TEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
AFTER THE MODEL BY PIERRE GOUTHIERE, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each with central ovoid marble vase within three hipped uprights with hoof feet supporting a central candelabrum and two tiers of scrolled branches with swag-cast and floral nozzles with acanthus drip-pans, atop a tripartite base set with Apollo masks and a concave sided marble base with vitruvian scrolled plaques and fruiting toupie feet
34¼ in. (87 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

These finely-cast candelabra are after the model attributed to Pierre Gouthière and supplied probably by the marchand-mercier Darnault for Marie-Antoinette's Salon du Jeu at the Petit-Trianon in 1785 (see P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1987, p. 99, fig. 111).

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