CANDELABRAS RETOUR d'EGYPTE, one pair of high-quality works, St. Petersburg, Alexander I, after Charles Perciers design, each for five lights, gilt and dark patina bronze, the sides with relief decoration, detachable candle rings, height 83.5 cm Compare versions of candelabras in the imperial summer palace Pavlovsk in St. Petersburg, as well as in the palace Archangelskoye and Ostankino outside Moscow LITERATURE K. A. Soloviev: Russkaya Osvetitelnaya Armatura, Gosudarstvennoye Izdatelstvo, 1950, compare very similar candelabras in Ostankino palace, Moscow illustration 243 & 244 A. Koutchoumov: Pavlovsk - Le Palais et le Parc, Leningrad 1976, compare illustrations 176, 178 and 180 Hans Ottomeyer & Peter Pröschel: Vergoldete Bronzen, band I, München 1986, compare variant of Pierre-Philippe-Thomire, Paris around 1805, page 336 Laura Cerwinske: Russian Imperial Style, London 1990, compare variant of the candelabras in the home of art collector Viktor Magids page 130 S:t Petersburg um 1800 - Ein goldenes Zeitalter des russischen Zarenreichs, Recklinghausen 1990, compare very similar candelabra in Hermitage, St. Petersburg, page 418 Jean-Marcel-Humbert, Michael Pantazzi & Christine Ziegler: Egyptomania - Egypt in Western Art 1730-1930, Canada 1994, compare variants of the candelabras page 286, similar variant fig 173, also compare Charles Percier's model of a console table around 1800, page 285
CANDELABRAS RETOUR d'EGYPTE, one pair of high-quality works, St. Petersburg, Alexander I, after Charles Perciers design, each for five lights, gilt and dark patina bronze, the sides with relief decoration, detachable candle rings, height 83.5 cm Compare versions of candelabras in the imperial summer palace Pavlovsk in St. Petersburg, as well as in the palace Archangelskoye and Ostankino outside Moscow LITERATURE K. A. Soloviev: Russkaya Osvetitelnaya Armatura, Gosudarstvennoye Izdatelstvo, 1950, compare very similar candelabras in Ostankino palace, Moscow illustration 243 & 244 A. Koutchoumov: Pavlovsk - Le Palais et le Parc, Leningrad 1976, compare illustrations 176, 178 and 180 Hans Ottomeyer & Peter Pröschel: Vergoldete Bronzen, band I, München 1986, compare variant of Pierre-Philippe-Thomire, Paris around 1805, page 336 Laura Cerwinske: Russian Imperial Style, London 1990, compare variant of the candelabras in the home of art collector Viktor Magids page 130 S:t Petersburg um 1800 - Ein goldenes Zeitalter des russischen Zarenreichs, Recklinghausen 1990, compare very similar candelabra in Hermitage, St. Petersburg, page 418 Jean-Marcel-Humbert, Michael Pantazzi & Christine Ziegler: Egyptomania - Egypt in Western Art 1730-1930, Canada 1994, compare variants of the candelabras page 286, similar variant fig 173, also compare Charles Percier's model of a console table around 1800, page 285
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