Online Auction 23287Two American Collections: The Estates of Adolphus and Emily Andrews, San Francisco and Donald Bruce Wilson, Memphis
A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
Lot 164PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. BRUCE WILSON

A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS

CIRCA 1810

Closed18 June 2024

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USD 5,000–8,000

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
CIRCA 1810
With leaf-tip reeded standard and circular base with fleur-de-lys and TON beneath a crown, a Maltese cross and No. 9 TON for the Trianon at Versailles
8 in. (20.5 cm.) high

Supplied to the Grand Trianon, Versailles.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1994, lot 352.
Property from the Estate of Wendell Cherry; Sotheby's, New York, 2 November 1996, lot 76.

Specialist note

An identical pair of candlesticks was delivered in 1807 to the Château de Fontainebleau for the appartement du grand veneur. Described as "une partie de flambeaux en cuivre cislé, à foudres, hauteur 27c" (Arch. Nat. AJ19 233). J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, 1989, p. 180.

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