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TWO PAIRS OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
TWO PAIRS OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
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These lots have been imported from outside the EU … 顯示更多 Grace Dudley had a phenomenal eye for works of art and furniture of the eighteenth century, primarily French and British, as well as a knowledge of the taste that had inspired them. Though British by marriage, she was a European at heart who was fluent in four languages and loved the museums and collections of France, Germany, and the United States. When I was at a loss for art historical, operatic or social information Grace usually knew the answer.Her New York apartments were the scene of some of the most diverting evenings of my life. The hostess, my friend of many years, was a woman of great culture, distinction, and wit. She had a very exact idea of the way things should look, and to this extent masterminded the design of her apartment, although the execution of the work was entrusted to her friend and decorator Tom Parr of Colefax & Fowler. The basic elements—the rose-pattered chintz, wallpaper, carpet—were old favorites from London. As for furniture, it was inherited, good, English things. Grace’s Lausanne apartment, in a tree filled park on the lake at Ouchy served her as an oasis. It too was decorated by Tom Parr and full of treasures many of which are in this sale. Among them are a fabulous Louis XVI console desserte by Riesener, a table Tricoteuse by Martin Carlin, and a George III ormolu-mounted Bluejohn perfume burner by Matthew Boulton. As in her New York apartments, her Lausanne residence contained an eclectic collection of paintings mostly drawn from noteworthy seventeenth-century Dutch masters. Grace's wit and wisdom, not to mention her infinite charm, were sharpened by her forceful personality, as illustrated in a letter from Nancy Mitford to Heywood Hill, 4th October 1970: "Grace Dudley has taken me in charge. For two years I've had no new clothes- she forced Saint Laurent to send down a dress, I can never describe its oddity to the eye of Rip van Winkle; I love it so much, I practically go to bed in it. It's a sack-coloured sack to the ankles, hideous and smart beyond belief...." ( "The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street, Letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73" edited by John Saumarez Smith). This was not only a matter of fashion. Grace was ineffably smart.John RichardsonNew York, October 2018
TWO PAIRS OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS

AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-DÉMOSTHÈNE DUGOURC, CIRCA 1830

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TWO PAIRS OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-DÉMOSTHÈNE DUGOURC, CIRCA 1830
Each with addorsed female caryatids stem surmounted with stiff-leaf-cast urn-shaped nozzle and on acanthus cast domed socle and circular fluted plinth
12 ½ in. (32 cm.) high
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These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer’s Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.

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These candlesticks are based on a design attributed to Jean-Demosthène Dugourc (1749-1825) and included in an album of designs delivered to both Madame Elizabeth and the comte de Provence. This model is first recorded on 26 June 1783, when the ciseleur-doreur François Rémond invoiced the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre 'Pour fonte, facon et dorure mate d'une paire de grands flambeaux a 4 figures et a guirlandes et fleur, etc 1050 livres', suggesting that this model of candlestick would have been originally supplied through Daguerre.

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