A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE TORCHERES
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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE TORCHERES

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE TORCHERES
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Modelled with a semi-clad satyr and a bacchante respectively, each with musical instruments and drinking vessels and holding aloft a spirally turned cornucopia with scrolling foliate collar and terminating in a berried boss, above a circular stepped base with gadrooned and berried laurel-cast rims, probably previously further mounted as candelabra
36½ in. (93 cm.) high (2)
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The original models for these bronze figures have been attributed to Claude Michel Clodion (d. 1814) and date from circa 1785. Modelling predominantly in terracotta, Clodion's oeuvre consists for the most part of the bacchanalian subjects, centaurs and nymphs which characterised classical sculpture in pre-Revolution France.
A similar pair of figures, with candle-branches, are now in the Louvre (illustrated H. Ottomeyer P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 283, cat. 4.14.5); while another two pairs, both dating from the late 18th century, were purchased by George IV and are now at Buckingham Palace (see J. Harris, G de Bellaigue, O. Millar, Buckingham Palace, London 1968, pp. 154 and 194). Two pairs dating, like the ones offered here, from the 19th century are now at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire (see Sir A. Blunt, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, London, 1974, pp. 688-9).