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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA
Lot 61

A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1770

Closed17 April 2024

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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1770
Each with three lights centered by a covered urn, above a stem with putti herms and a circular base cast with acanthus, laurel leaves and Vitruvian scrolls
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

A Parisian Collection; Christie's, Paris, 23 June 2005, lot 413.
A Taste for Luxury: Two Great Houses from the Gilded Age; Christie's, New York, 21 June 2012, lot 1050.

Specialist note

With their shafts modeled with putti, these candelabra are similar to a pair in the Wallace Collection, see F.J.B. Watson, The Wallace Collection, London, 1956, nos. F128 and 129, pp. 1210-13, and another formerly in the collection of Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, see Sotheby's, New York, 25 April 1998, lot 245. With similar urn finials and human bodies terminating in voluted terms, these candelabra are also very close in design to a pair executed in silver by Robert-Joseph Auguste (1723-1805) now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv. No. 48.187.389A&B).