Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE SEVEN-BRANCH CANDELABRA
Lot 248 Property from a Prestigious Swiss Collection (66, 207-252)

A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE SEVEN-BRANCH CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1820-1830

Closed2 October 2013

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GBP 3,500

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A PAIR OF CHARLES X ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE SEVEN-BRANCH CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1820-1830
The reeded spreading shaft inset into a bold acanthus terminal set on a tripartite lion's paw base cast with lotus leaf rim, surmounted by foliate branches
30 1/3 in. (77 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

Comparable candelabra can be found in the collection of the Casita del Principe, El Escorial, Spain, comissioned by King Fernando VII in Paris and is illustrated in M. Deschamps, Empire, London 1994, p. 195.