LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A RUSSIAN ORMOLU, WHITE MARBLE AND CUT-GLASS SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRUM
LATE 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With central vase issuing six scrolled branches and central upright with pine-cone finial, on a fluting spreading shaft, on outscrolled Greek key tripod legs, on a canted triangular concave-sided plinth with paw feet, restorations and replacements, originally with further chains
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 13 in. (33 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 November 2008, lot 161 (£17,250 including premium).

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Lot Essay

This magnificent candelabrum served as part of a vase-garniture for a pier-table or guèridon-stand. It relates to candelabra designs featured in the Oeuvres of the Parisian décorateur et dessinateur Richard de Lalonde, issued between 1780 and 1796, as well as to one illustrated in the 1792 Journal des Luxus und der Moden; and is likely to have been executed in the 1790s in the St. Petersburg workshop of Vaye. Amongst others of this basic pattern was a pair, incorporating cobalt vases from the Imperial Glassworks, formerly in the possession of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (sold Sotheby's, Villa Demidoff, Pratolino, 24 April 1969). Related examples are illustrated in I. Sychev, The Russian Chandeliers 1760-1830, 2003, p. 48 and a closely related candelabrum with blue glass column was with Mallett in 1998.

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