ID 812988
Lot 17 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
MID-18TH CENTURY, AFTER THE DESIGN BY JUSTE-AURELE MEISSONIER
Each with three scrolling foliate branches cast with grapes, the twisted asymmetric stem mounted with a putto to one side, above a rocaille base
13 3/4 in. (35 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, in 1972.
Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection.
The Collection of Carroll Petrie & European Decorative Arts from the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, including the Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection, Christie's New York, 31 March 2016, lot 1250.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Curiosità di una reggia, Vicende della guardaroba di Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 1979, cat. n° 18, repr.
D. Alcouffe, Cinq années d’enrichissement du Patrimoine national, 1975-1980, Donations, dations, acquisitions, Paris, 1980, pp. 117-118, cat. n° 97.
H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, volume I, Munich, 1986, p. 102-103, fig; 2.1.1 - 2.1.4.
P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Cataloguer of Furniture III, London, 1996, pp. 1204-1209, cat. n° 235 (F78-9).
P. Fuhring, Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, Une génie du rococo, 1695-1750, volume II, Turin and London, 1999, p. 193, cat. n° 28.
G. Mabille, Les bronzes d’ameublement du Louvre, Dijon, 2004, p. 59, cat. n° 23, and pp. 60-61, cat. n° 24.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
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| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps |
| Address of auction |
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