A GOOD PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE FIGURAL CANDELABRA LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY With bacchic cherub figures supporting spiral twist branches with grape and vine sconces, on rouge griotte marble bases with laurel banding 44.5cm high, bases 15cm wide The exact origin of the design of this model of figural candelabra has yet to be fully established. Opinions are divided with attributions to both Claude Michel, called Clodion, and Louis Félix de la Rue suggested. It was a model that quickly found favour- particularly in English collections in the 19th Century with examples including a pair in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and another pair recorded in the possession of the Comtesse de Flahaut at Coventry House, London in 1863 and subsequently sold by the Trustees of the Meiklour Settlement, Christie's London, 11 June 1992, lot 50. A pair of candelabra attributed to de la Rue is in the Residenz Munich and illustrated, Ottomeyer, Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronze, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 210. For similar please see: Christie's New York, the Djahanguir Riahi Collection 2 November 2000, lot 1 (sold $50,000). Christie's London East & West: A Private Collection From Eaton Square & Anouska Hempel. 2nd May 2013, lot 40 (sold £17,500).
A GOOD PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND MARBLE FIGURAL CANDELABRA LATE 18TH OR EARLY 19TH CENTURY With bacchic cherub figures supporting spiral twist branches with grape and vine sconces, on rouge griotte marble bases with laurel banding 44.5cm high, bases 15cm wide The exact origin of the design of this model of figural candelabra has yet to be fully established. Opinions are divided with attributions to both Claude Michel, called Clodion, and Louis Félix de la Rue suggested. It was a model that quickly found favour- particularly in English collections in the 19th Century with examples including a pair in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and another pair recorded in the possession of the Comtesse de Flahaut at Coventry House, London in 1863 and subsequently sold by the Trustees of the Meiklour Settlement, Christie's London, 11 June 1992, lot 50. A pair of candelabra attributed to de la Rue is in the Residenz Munich and illustrated, Ottomeyer, Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronze, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 210. For similar please see: Christie's New York, the Djahanguir Riahi Collection 2 November 2000, lot 1 (sold $50,000). Christie's London East & West: A Private Collection From Eaton Square & Anouska Hempel. 2nd May 2013, lot 40 (sold £17,500).
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