An Empire ormolu and bronze candélabre or guéridon support

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An Empire ormolu and bronze candélabre or guéridon support
In the Egyptian Revival taste, modelled with three addorsed caryatid figures, each holding a tablet with pseudo hieroglyphs, the capital cast and incised with further hieroglyphs and winged sun discs, below further panels surmounted by addorsed heads wearing Nemes headdress below anthemions, the tripod base with winged sphinxes, on a stepped and concave sided platform with paw feet
24¼in. (61.5cm) high

Lot Essay

The present lamp is conceived in the Egyptian style as popularised by Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine in their Recueil de Décorations Intérieures of 1801, and Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration of 1807. A very similar ormolu column, in this instance forming a guéridon support, is illustrated in Jean Marcel Humbert's L'Egyptomaine dans L'art Occidental, ACR Edition Internationale, Paris 1989, p.133.

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