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A LARGE PAIR OF ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE MOUNTED RED MARBLE THIRTEEN-LIGHT FIGURAL TORCHERES
Lot 269 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A LARGE PAIR OF ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE MOUNTED RED MARBLE THIRTEEN-LIGHT FIGURAL TORCHERES

ATTRIBUTED TO BALDI, FLORENCE, AFTER MODELS BY ALBERT-ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE (FRENCH, 1824 - 1887), LATE 20TH CENTURY

Closed19 May 2021

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GBP 37,500

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A LARGE PAIR OF ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE MOUNTED RED MARBLE THIRTEEN-LIGHT FIGURAL TORCHERES
ATTRIBUTED TO BALDI, FLORENCE, AFTER MODELS BY ALBERT-ERNEST CARRIER-BELLEUSE (FRENCH, 1824 - 1887), LATE 20TH CENTURY
Each modelled as a Classical maiden with a diadem in her hair and sheathed in a diaphanous dress supporting a rouge griotte urn issuing a baluster steam surmounted by a central light and twelve scrolling acanthus-clad candlearms mounted with spires and satyr masks and terminating in fleur-de-lys decorated bobeches, on circular pedestals mounted with ribbon-tied floral and fruiting garlands above a foliate border divided by alternation lion-paw and shield-headed breakfront feet, drilled for electricity
10 ft. / 120 in. (306 cm.) high, overall; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) diameter, the pedestal base

Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 25 November 2009, lot 240 (£96,000).

Specialist note

Other examples of this popular model after Carrier-Belleuse have sold Property from the Estate of Leona M. Helmsley; Christie's, New York, 9 April 2008, lot 5 ($109,000); Christie’s, London, 22 September 2011, lot 240 (£73,250) and Property from a Private Asian Collection; Christie’s, New York, 13 April 2017, lot 18 ($211,500).