ID 992750
Lot 61 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
MARK OF HENRY AUGUSTE, PARIS, 1789, AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-GUILLAUME MOITTE
Each on circular spreading base chased with a band of water leaves rising to a tapering stem with a laurel and a beaded band, and cast on the shoulder with a friese of palmettes on matted ground, the three double scrolling branches emerging from a flower and terminating with a snake, and applied with large textured beaded leaves scroll, the sockets gadrooned with fluted socket with similar nozzle, engraved under the bases and on nozzles' sleeves with a coat-of-arms beneath a coronet, marked under bases, rims, on central standards and nozzles
24 in. (61 cm.) high
gross weight 301 oz. 17 dwt. (9,390 gr.)
The arms are those of Cadaval, probably for Miguel Àlvares Pereira de Melo, 5th Duke of Cadaval (1765-1808).
Provenance
Miguel Àlvares Pereira de Melo, 5th Duke of Cadaval (1765-1808).
Ader Picard Tajan, Palais Galliera, Paris, November, 1975, lot 63.
A Lady; Christie’s New York, 11 April 1995, lot 157.
Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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Medium: | Silver |
Art style: | Neoclassicism, Old Masters |
Category: | Candlesticks |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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Medium: | Silver |
Art style: | Neoclassicism, Old Masters |
Category: | Candlesticks |
Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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