Live Auction 1147European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries
A SET OF FOUR CHARLES X ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Lot 306 The Baron Per Adolf Tamm Ormolu and Cut-Glass Table Service (lots 299-310)

A SET OF FOUR CHARLES X ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1830

Closed2 October 2013

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GBP 17,500

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A SET OF FOUR CHARLES X ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1830
Each with fluted baluster-shaped stem, issuing four scrolling branches, raised on a tripod base with lion monopodia
20½ in. (52 cm.) high (4)

Ordered by Baron Per Tamm in Paris in the 1830s;
Thence by descent.

Specialist note

A closely related pair of ormolu candelabra by Thomire et Cie. were delivered to the Grand Trianon for the cabinet de travail de la Reine in 1837, and are illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon: Meubles et objets d'art, Paris, 1975, p. 128.
A comparable set of four, with patinated stem, was sold at Christie's New York, 24 November 2009, lot 232 (USD47,500).