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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU SIX LIGHT CANDELABRA
Lot 275PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT AMERICAN COLLECTION

A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU SIX LIGHT CANDELABRA

BY PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, CIRCA 1805

Closed20 August 2020

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU SIX LIGHT CANDELABRA
BY PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, CIRCA 1805
Each with cornucopia-shaped branches above a reeded stem, the bases each stamped THOMIRE A PARIS.
27 ½ in. (70 cm.) high

Craig Wright Interiors; Sotheby's, New York, 4 October 2006, lot 36.

Specialist note

These candelabra by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843), maître fondeur-ciseleur in 1772, are related to those now in the Grand Trianon, Versailles (inv. T 68c) illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.393, fig. 5.17.12.

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