A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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£ 70 000
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Lot 61 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI SILVER FOUR-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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.
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