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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILDED GESSO TWIN-LIGHT FIGURAL CANDELABRA
Lot 351

A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILDED GESSO TWIN-LIGHT FIGURAL CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1800, AFTER LOUIS SIMON BOIZOT

Closed20 March 2012

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILDED GESSO TWIN-LIGHT FIGURAL CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1800, AFTER LOUIS SIMON BOIZOT
Each modelled as a seated woman in Classical dress reading a book and holding a spiralling branch with brass sconces, on black marble bases, damages
17 in. (43 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

A similar pair of ebonised plaster candelabra are in the John Soane Museum. Boizot, Director of Sculpture at the Sevres factory, first produced the model entitled L'etude in the 1780s in hard paste porcelain.