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United Kingdom
Lot 152 A PAIR OF ITALIAN PATINATED-BRONZE AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED GIALLO DI SIENA FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751 - 1843)
Pierre-Philippe Thomire
06.12.1751 - 09.06.1843
France
Pierre-Philippe Thomire a French sculptor, was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire style furnishing bronzes (bronzes d'ameublement) established the highest standard in refined finish in the craft that the French called that of the fondeur-ciseleur, "founder-finisher".