A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

LATE 19TH CENTURY, STAMPED EUGENE HAZART, PARIS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
late 19th century, stamped eugene hazart, paris
Each with C-scrolled candlearms with spreading leaf-tip-cast drip-pans and fluted bobêches, centering a flame-cast finial, on three foliate supports with hoofed feet, draped by husk wreaths, raised on a circular and acanthus-cast spreading base
13in. (33cm.) high, 9in. (23cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

These candelabra are base on eighteenth century models inspired by the dessinateur Jean-Charles Delafosse. An eighteenth century pair of this model in the Jones Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P.Pröschel et.al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 187, fig. 3.9.4.