Paire d'importants et grands candélabres de style Louis XVI d'époque Napoléon III en bronze ciselé et doré à dix lumières, milieu XIXe siècle

A pair of monumental Napoleon III ormolu ten-light candelabra in the Louis XVI style, mid-19th century

Each depicting draped dancing muses holding aloft the foliate and flowering branches terminating in rose and lily-shaped nozzles and drip-pans, on reeded columnar bases hung with berried swags, above beaded and foliate moulding, on a square plinth with canted angles, 45cm diam., 135cm high, (17 1/2in diam., 53in high)
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Provenance:
Private Italian collection

The model of these candelabra is based on two plaster casts by Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716-1791), known from a drawing by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin executed in the margin of a booklet of the Salon of 1761. Similarly, the draped nymphs or muses can be as well associated to a model by Louis Simon Boizot (1743-1809) who was director of sculpture at Sèvres in 1774 (E. Bourgeois and G. Lechevallier-Chevignard, Le Biscuit de Sèvres, Recueil des modèles de la Manufacture de Sèvres au XVIIIe Siècle, Vol.I, p.23, no.311), see F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection Catalogues, Furniture, London, 1956, p.89, F136-7.
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: W
W Lot is located in the Bonhams Warehouse and will only be available for collection from this location.