POSSIBLY MADE FOR THE ENGLISH MARKET

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PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Possibly made for the English market
Each with classically draped female carrying two ewers and supporting a cushion and spirally-fluted vase with fruit and foliage issuing a pair of bifurcated candlebranches with drip-pans and nozzles, on a canted rectangular base mounted with pierced geometric panels centered by a mask, on a stepped plinth
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

The caryatic ewer-bearing bacchantae have candle-branches issuing from fruit-filled urns and stand on ormolu-enriched pedestals, which relate to those of a pair of candelabra sold in these Rooms, 15 June 1995, lot 86 and another pair sold Sotheby's Zurich, 10 December 1996, lot 361.
Their pearled, flowered and scalloped medallions also feature on a Chinese hermed console table by Adam Weisweiler, that is likely to have featured amongst the furnishings that the Parisian/London marchand mercier Dominique Daguerre (d. 1796) provided to George IV, when Prince of Wales (see P. Lemonnier, Weisweiler, Paris, 1983, p. 41).

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