A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BLEU TURQUIN MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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OGDEN MILLS AND 73, RUE VARENNE A private residence since its construction, the hôtel at 73 rue de Varenne, like the Domaine in Alain-Fournier's Grand Meaulnes, conceals behind its high walls a rich history and fine 18th century interior décor. Purchased in 1752 by Victor-François de Broglie, Duc de Broglie and Maréchal de France, the hôtel Julliet de Taverny was, until 1777, the residence of Abbé Charles-Maurice de Broglie, Bishop of Noyon. The Duc then decided to occupy the hôtel himself, at which point the central part of the building was extended two-fold towards the garden and was given a new façade by the architect Le Boursier. The walls of the main salon were then covered with panelling carved with arabesques. Seized and stripped of its furnishings during the Revolution, the hôtel was in the 19th century home to the Duchesse de Montebello, widow of Maréchal Lanne and former Lady-in-Waiting to Empress Marie-Louise. Purchased in 1910 by the American connoisseur, collector and philanthropist, Ogden Mills, the hôtel was initially occupied by the American Forces during the First World War, but then completely refurnished under Mills' direction in the early 1920s. Ogden L. Mills, US Secretary of the Treasury under President Hoover and son of the powerful American banker Darius Ogden Mills, re-awakened the hôtel's 18th century interior with the acquisition of some of the best furniture and decoration available at the time. THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BLEU TURQUIN MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1780

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND BLEU TURQUIN MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1780
Each modelled with an ovoid vase with waisted neck issuing lily-spray branches with flower buds enclosing three nozzles, the vase flanked by rams' masks with spirally twisted handles, above a ribbon and foliage entwined band and stiff-leaf cradle, on a fluted socle and square plinth with foliate-cast edge, two flowerheads replaced
37 in. (94 cm.) high (2)

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Acquired circa 1910 by the philanthropist and collector Ogden Mills (1857-1929) for his Parisian residence 73, rue de Varenne, inherited by his daughter, Beatrice, the Countess of Granard, and by descent in the family.

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A closely related pair of candelabra featuring virtually identical mounts is in the musée du Louvre, Paris (E. Molinier, Le Mobilier Royal Français aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Histoire et Description, Paris, 1902, vol.III, fig.1.1.2). A further related pair of candelabra with alabaster bodies was in the collection of the Earls of Rosebery at Mentmore, Buckinghamshire from at least 1884, and sold at auction in May 1977 (Mentmore, vol. I, privately published, 1884, p. 55, nos. 1 and 2; 'Mentmore' vol. I, Sotheby's, London, 18-20 May 1977, lot 89). Another closely related pair with identical mounts but with porcelain vases sold 'Le Gôut Steinitz', Christie's, New York, 19 October 2007, lot 9 ($97,000 including premium).
Although the design of these candelabra is certainly French in origin, they clearly seem to have appealed to North European and specifically Russian taste in the late 18th century. A pair of closely related candelabra with the same rams' heads and similar leaf and guilloche bases, was formerly in the collection of the Prince Nikolai Yusopov (d.1831). Yusopov, who acquired the estate of Arkhangelskoye from the Golitsyn family in 1810, brought with him his celebrated collection of paintings, sculptures and decorative arts (V. Rapport, Arkhangelskoye: A Country Estate of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Leningrad, 1984, no. 35).