CIRCA 1830-1840

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A PAIR OF ROYAL LOUIS-PHILIPPE ORMOLU SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1830-1840
The palmette-clad baluster stem issuing scrolling foliate candle-arms and supported by up-turned acanthus feet above a tripartite base with laurel wreaths centred by a Classical mask on lion paw fee above a triangular base, stamped with L and P flanking a crown above an N, and marked 14662 and 14663 respectively, regilt
30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to duc d'Orléans, later Louis Philippe of France for the Château de Neuilly.

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Lot Essay

The present pair of candelabra were almost certainly part of a commission ordered by the duc d’Orléans, later Louis Philippe of France (1773-1850) for The Château de Neuilly. The marks LP and N record that these candelabra were part of the inventory at the château.

The Château de Neuilly was originally built for Marc Pierre de Voyer d’Argenson, Secretary of State to Louis XV in the 1750s. Early in the 19th Century it belonged to Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon’s most distinguished generals and who subsequently married Napoleon’s youngest sister Caroline. When Murat was made King of Naples in 1808, the Château de Neuilly, together with its contents, passed on to his sister-in-law Pauline, Princess Borghese. When Louis Philippe acquired the château in 1819, he appointed Henri Antione Jacques as head gardener and commissioned Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine to enlarge the château. During the revolutions of 1848 the château was destroyed.

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