BY CLAUDE GALLE OR PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, CIRCA 1805-10

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
BY CLAUDE GALLE OR PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, CIRCA 1805-10
Each in the form of a standing Classical female holding aloft a four branch candelabrum cast with anthemia and with applied rams masks, the other hand with a single trumpet form candlestick on a cylindrical base with a band of satyr masks and bosses above a frieze of dancing Classical maidens raised on addorsed winged reclining lions on a tripartite base, and each with a later fluted mahogany pedestal
41½ in. (105.5 cm.) high, the pedestals 30 in. (78 cm.) high, 12¼ in. (31 cm.) diameter (4)

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Lot Essay

Two pairs of candelabra of this model, but with eight branches, were supplied by Claude Galle (d. 1815) in 1807 for the Salon de l'Impératrice at the château de Fontainebleau. In the 1808 inventory they are described as 'deux paires figures bronzes sur colonne et socle triangulaire portant 8 lumières 2000, 4000' (J.-P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrs sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, p. 157, fig. 134). A further pair was delivered by Pierre-François Feuchère to the château de Compiègne in 1810 (H. Ottomeyer, P. Prøschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 334, fig 5.2.16). Other examples of this model have sold at Christie's, London, 5 July 2001 (£51,700 including premium) and Christie's, Paris, 13 December 2006, lot 351 (EUR60,000 including premium).

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