ID 1027468
Lot 58 | A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI PATINATED-BRONZE, ORMOLU AND BLEU TURQUIN SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS REMOND, CIRCA 1790
Each with a central vase surmounted by a bouquet of fruits turning to reveal a bobeche, the tapering neck issuing three scrolling branches modeled as eagle heads supporting nozzles, the main body with stiff-leaf waist and berry boss, tripod supports issuing S-scroll, reeded and acanthus-wrapped arms supporting leaf-tip drip trays and foliate nozzles, headed by satyr masks joined by associated floral swags and united by a circular ring decorated with foliate scrolls, terminating in winged sphynxes, the central stem wrapped with a coiling snake, on a tri-partite circular bleu turquin marble base inset with panels decorated with ribbon-tied foliate-trails and flowering baskets, with a label inscribed in black ink 'Bne EDOUARD / 19 av FOCH' ; on later feet
37 in. (94 cm.) high, 21 in. (53.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the 1er etage Grand salon bleu, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, 1er etage Grand salon bleu, (‘Deux candélabres trépieds bronze dore, trois chimères assises aux pieds estime trente mille francs 30000').
Artist: | François Rémond (1747 - 1812) |
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Applied technique: | Ormolu |
Medium: | Gold, Stone |
Art style: | Directoire (fr. 1795-1799) |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Candlesticks and candelabras |
Artist: | François Rémond (1747 - 1812) |
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Applied technique: | Ormolu |
Medium: | Gold, Stone |
Art style: | Directoire (fr. 1795-1799) |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Candlesticks and candelabras |
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