A RESTAURATION ORMOLU CENTREPIECE
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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU CENTREPIECE

BY PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1820-30

已結束2012年4月4日

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EUR 17,500

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A RESTAURATION ORMOLU CENTREPIECE
BY PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE, PARIS, CIRCA 1820-30
The pierced out-curved basket molded as grapevines held aloft by two dancing bacchantes on a cylindrical base with applied putti between swags and palmettes, on a palmette-cast circular foot, signed THOMIRE A PARIS
61 cm. high

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Pierre-Philippe Thomire, maître fondeur in 1772.

This centrepiece was almost certainly conceived to form part of a surtout de table, standing on a mirrored plateau with further decorative items. The basket of the piece was intended for an arrangement of flowers and could possibly be fitted with a separate ring with candle-branches. One such surtout de table, with maidens standing on nearly identical bases is shown in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 386, fig. 5.16.14.