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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD TORCHERES
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD TORCHERES

CIRCA 1715

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD TORCHERES
CIRCA 1715
Each with tripartite rest and tapering shafts carved with masks and latticework and with pierced scrolls, garland-draped scrolling foliate legs, later block feet
56 in. (142.5 cm.) high, 13 ½ in. (35 cm.) wide 10 ½ in. (27 cm.) deep

Anonymous Sale; Christie's, London, 12 December 1996, lot 201.
Acquired from Partridge, London, in September 2005.

Note du spécialiste

These elegant torcheres were designed to support candelabra and would often flank a table or be placed in the corners of a room. They are based on designs published in 1707 by Mariette in his Nouveaux Dessins de Meubles et Ouvrages de Bronze et et de marquetrie Inventé par Andé-Charles Boulle. Related examples include one illustrated in T.A. Strange, French Interiors, Furniture and Decoration, London, 1910(p.165), another in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum (S. De Ricci, Louis XIV und Regence, Stuttgart, 1929, p.82) and a pair at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1953.18.1-2).