A PAIR OF FRECH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PATINATED-BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE FIGURAL SEVEN LIGHT TORCHERES
MID-19TH CENTURY, AFTER A MODEL BY FRANCOIS REMOND
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A PAIR OF FRECH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PATINATED-BRONZE AND ROUGE GRIOTTE FIGURAL SEVEN LIGHT TORCHERES
MID-19TH CENTURY, AFTER A MODEL BY FRANCOIS REMOND
In the Louis XVI style, each modelled as a bacchante with grapevine headdress draped in a pelt and carrying tambourines and musical instruments, one on a tree trunk, the other on grass with a classical urn and vessel, each bearing a spirally-reeded cornucopia with a vitruvian scroll motif to the neck and a vine leaf circlet above the opening, each issuing six spirally-reeded and foliate branches with vine leaf and palmette bobeches and a central taller stem modelled as a tree trunk entwined with vines similarly issuing a bobeche, the circular rouge griotte base with a beaded border and foliate moulding on a later columnar simulated marble pedestal base with a moulded border, drilled for electricity
The torcheres 55 in. (140 cm.) high, 14 in. (36 cm.) diameter; The pedestal bases 19 in. (48 cm.) high, 12 in. (30 cm.) diameter
MID-19TH CENTURY, AFTER A MODEL BY FRANCOIS REMOND
In the Louis XVI style, each modelled as a bacchante with grapevine headdress draped in a pelt and carrying tambourines and musical instruments, one on a tree trunk, the other on grass with a classical urn and vessel, each bearing a spirally-reeded cornucopia with a vitruvian scroll motif to the neck and a vine leaf circlet above the opening, each issuing six spirally-reeded and foliate branches with vine leaf and palmette bobeches and a central taller stem modelled as a tree trunk entwined with vines similarly issuing a bobeche, the circular rouge griotte base with a beaded border and foliate moulding on a later columnar simulated marble pedestal base with a moulded border, drilled for electricity
The torcheres 55 in. (140 cm.) high, 14 in. (36 cm.) diameter; The pedestal bases 19 in. (48 cm.) high, 12 in. (30 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Artcurial, Paris, 23 june 2009, lot 171
Robert de Balkany, Rue de Varenne, Paris I, Sotheby's Paris, lot 113, 20 September 2016.
Robert de Balkany, Rue de Varenne, Paris I, Sotheby's Paris, lot 113, 20 September 2016.
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