Sale 1376
New York
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19 May 2004
Price realised
USD 7,768
Estimate
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA 19TH CENTURY Each with tapering oviform body with rope-twist handles ending in satyr masks, issuing lily-spray candlearms over a circular socle and a gadrooned square plinth base, the vases probably previously with lids 22¾ in. (58 cm.) high, 11 in. (28 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Prince Gérard Joseph de Faucigny-Lucinge, Cannes; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 22-23 April 1955, lot 112.
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Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR (Lots 256-267)
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With her high-piled ringlets, gold earrings and heavy black kohl, the woman portrayed in this funerary painting offers a glimpse of life almost 2,000 years ago