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    17 - 18 November 1999

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    • A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU, PA
    Lot 654

    A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND RED GRIOTTE MARBLE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

    CIRCA 1825

    Price realised

    USD 18,400

    Estimate

    USD 20,000 - USD 30,000

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    A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND RED GRIOTTE MARBLE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
    Circa 1825
    Each in the form of a winged female figure, her left foot forward, holding aloft an acanthus-wrapped vase issuing a central branch and six acanthus-sheathed branches, the volute of each set with a flowerhead, with reeded drip-pans, on a plinth with stepped top and base, each side set with a ribbon-tied laurel and berry wreath, electrified, the patinated base of the central candle arm replaced
    46in. (117cm.) high (2)

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    Lot Essay

    These candelabra, their winged figures emblematic of Victory, relate to a design executed by the architect Charles Percier as part of a commission to furnish Empress Josephine's bedroom at the chteau de Saint-Cloud (illustrated in M.L. Myers, French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1991, pp. 157-160, cat. 98). The model is particularly associated with the work of Pierre-Philippe Thomire (d.1743), the most famous bronzier of the Empire period.

    Related figures and bases feature on a pair of candelabra attributed to Pierre Victor Ledure in Schloss Ellingen, illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Prschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 328, fig. 5.17.4.

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