A PAIR OF EMPIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA, attributed to Pierre-Philippe-Thomire and after a design by Charles Percier each with a Egyptian female figure wearing a vulture headdress, wesekh collar and sheath garment, supporting a nozzle with classical figures and foliate drip-pan, with three further branches mounted with birds and surmounted by a seated cat, the figure holding in each hand a fasces issuing a serpent and nozzle with anthemion and star ornament, on spreading rectangular plinth with mythological figure squatting on a bull, the sides with Egyptian figures on a rectangular plinth with sphinx and other animals 26in. (66cm.) high (2)
A PAIR OF EMPIRE BRONZE AND ORMOLU SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA, attributed to Pierre-Philippe-Thomire and after a design by Charles Percier each with a Egyptian female figure wearing a vulture headdress, wesekh collar and sheath garment, supporting a nozzle with classical figures and foliate drip-pan, with three further branches mounted with birds and surmounted by a seated cat, the figure holding in each hand a fasces issuing a serpent and nozzle with anthemion and star ornament, on spreading rectangular plinth with mythological figure squatting on a bull, the sides with Egyptian figures on a rectangular plinth with sphinx and other animals 26in. (66cm.) high (2)
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