CIRCA 1820-30, AFTER THE MODEL BY CLAUDE GALLE

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1820-30, AFTER THE MODEL BY CLAUDE GALLE
Each with a stiff-leaf baluster shaft cast in relief with winged figures, foliate sprays and palmettes, headed by hound masks, issuing cornucopiae-shaped scrolled branches with circular drip-pans and nozzles and surmounted by a pinecone finial, above a square plinth mounted with winged females flanked by hounds and stylised anthemia, on paw feet, above a concave-sided base, pierced for electricity; restorations, the finials replaced, originally with further lamp finial and with four branches
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high; 11 in. (28 cm.) wide; 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The rich decoration of these candelabra reflects both aspects of the French and of the Russian Empire style of the early 19th century, with the disposition and proportion of the distinctive relief-cast ornamentation of the patinated shaft relating these candelabra to a pair made in the workshops of the celebrated Parisian bronzier Claude Galle (1759-1815) for the Russian market in circa 1805. (cf. Gaydamak, Arcadi: Russian Empire, Moscow 2000, p. 177). While the winged maidens decorating the lower part of the shaft are related to mounts of a pair of Russian Empire vases from circa 1800 (Christie's London, 25 November 2008, lot 19), attributed to the celebrated Russian bronzier Friedrich Bergenfeldt (1760-1814) who worked for the Imperial Court at St. Petersburg.

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