Live Auction 2504A Trumbauer Estate on The Philadelphia Main Line
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL CANDLESTICKS
Lot 668

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL CANDLESTICKS

19TH CENTURY

Closed15 April 2011

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE FIGURAL CANDLESTICKS
19th century
Each modeled as a putto holding aloft a flower-filled basket with removable lid, on a bead-molded pedestal and square plinth
11 3/8 in. (30 cm.) high (2)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2001, lot 343.

Specialist note

Conceived in the French 'Grecian' fashion, this pair of candlesticks can be related to designs of wall-lights by Louis Prieur, circa 1775, which were further interpreted by Jean-François Forty, circa 1780 in his Oeuvres de Sculpture en Bronze. Contenant Girandoles, Flambeaux, Feux, Pendules, Bras, Cartels, Baromètres, Inventèes et Dessinèes par J.F.F. (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et.al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. , p. 288, figs. 4.16.1 and 4.16.2).