Live Auction 16353Kenneth Neame: Including Arts of India, English and European Furniture and Works of Art, European and Chinese Ceramics, Chinese and Old Master Paintings
A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Lot 55

A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

ATTRIBUTED TO GERARD-JEAN GALLE, CIRCA 1820

Closed13 June 2018

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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ATTRIBUTED TO GERARD-JEAN GALLE, CIRCA 1820
One with an armour-clad figure of Mars, the other Minerva, each against a martial trophy of spears and axes, the fasces stem surmounted by crossed flags and issuing four trumpet branches, on a stepped square plinth centred by a martial trophy, drilled for electricity with consequential minor replacements to central stem, Minerva with a replaced plume to her helmet and replaced spear
30 ¾ in. (78 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie’s, New York, 22 May 2002, lot 496.

Specialist note

The attribution of these striking martial candelabra to Gérard-Jean Galle is based on their close comparison to a pair of candelabra forming the flanking elements of a clock garniture that was signed 'Galle / rue Vivienne nr. 9'. The garniture was ordered in Paris in 1820 for the King of Sweden, at a cost of 2200 francs. Delivered by 1823 to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, they remain there to this day (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 396, fig. 5.18.9; the figures erroneously identified as Odysseus and Telemachus; Minerva missing her shield). Gérard-Jean Galle (1788-1846) was the son of the bronzier Claude Galle (1759-1815).