Live Auction 5077Christie's Interiors
A PAIR OF FRENCH GILT-BRONZE CANDLESTICKS
Lot 90

A PAIR OF FRENCH GILT-BRONZE CANDLESTICKS

OF LOUIS XVI STYLE AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-DEMOSTHME DUGOURC, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed21 January 2014

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A PAIR OF FRENCH GILT-BRONZE CANDLESTICKS
OF LOUIS XVI STYLE AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-DEMOSTHME DUGOURC, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each with beaded stiff-leaf-cast nozzle above a lion-mask-headed vessel, above three addorsed caryatids cast with satyr-masks and suspending festooned swags, the socle cast with laurel, on circular domed base cast with acanthus and edged with beading
13 in. (33 cm.) high

Specialist note

These candlesticks are after the celebrated pair in the Wallace Collection attributed to Jean-Demosthme Dugourc on the basis of a 1789 drawing by him in an album of designs for the Comte de Provence and Madame Elisabeth. see F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection Catalogue, London, 1956, F1746, 175.