Live Auction 5685Christie's Interiors
Christie’s roundel
Lot 200

A PAIR OF FRENCH GILT-BRONZE CANDLESTICKS

AFTER MEISSONIER, 19TH CENTURY

Closed2 March 2010

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GBP 1,625

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A PAIR OF FRENCH GILT-BRONZE CANDLESTICKS
AFTER MEISSONIER, 19TH CENTURY
Each with a baluster shaft decorated with two putti resting on cartouches
12 in. (30 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

The model for these candlesticks derives from a design by Juste-Aurle Meissonnier (1675-1750), illustrated P. Fuhring, Juste-Aurle Meissonnier, Un gnie du rococo, Turin, 1999, p. 319. The design, dated 1728, was originally intended to be executed in silver, but prooved so popular it was soon also executed in ormolu and porcelain