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Lot Essay
The design for these candelabra derives directly from a drawing for a porcelain and ormolu table by the celebrated architects and ornemanistes C. Percier and P.F.L. Fontaine. It was first illustrated in their Recueil de Décorations Intérieures, Paris, 1801-1812, pl. XXI.
A closely related pair, though lacking the candle branches and decorated with bronze ornamentation on a steel body, is in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, vol.I, p. 362, fig. 5.12.1), while another is in Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden (G. Haase and G. Reinheckel, Kunsthandwerk des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, 1978, p. 157. fig. E.26). A virtually identical pair, with associated pierced baskets, was sold at Christie's, New York, 22 May 2002, lot 385.
A closely related pair, though lacking the candle branches and decorated with bronze ornamentation on a steel body, is in the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, vol.I, p. 362, fig. 5.12.1), while another is in Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden (G. Haase and G. Reinheckel, Kunsthandwerk des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, 1978, p. 157. fig. E.26). A virtually identical pair, with associated pierced baskets, was sold at Christie's, New York, 22 May 2002, lot 385.