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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND BEAU BLEU PORCELAIN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Lot 48 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND BEAU BLEU PORCELAIN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Closed8 July 2010

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND BEAU BLEU PORCELAIN THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each with an urn-shaped vase flanked by entwined serpent handles and issuing lily branches with flowerhead-shaped nozzles, the stiff-leaf socle above a foliate-cast stepped square base
41½ in. (105.5 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

In 1787 the Parisian marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre supplied six pairs of the original model to the Duke of York, brother to the future George IV; while a vase of this model, with branches forming candelabra, is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (Jones collection, 982, 982A, 1882), illustrated by H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. 1, p. 259.