A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT-BRONZE THREE-LIGHT GIRANDOLES DE CHEMINEE

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ID 819765
Lot 10 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT-BRONZE THREE-LIGHT GIRANDOLES DE CHEMINEE
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$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT-BRONZE THREE-LIGHT GIRANDOLES DE CHEMINEE

PROBABLY DESIGNED BY PIERRE CONTANT D'IVRY AND EXECUTED BY ANTOINE LELIÈVRE, CIRCA 1745-1746

The gilding richly contrasted in matte and burnished finishes, each with two twisting branches cast with berried palm leaves rising to lower-petal nozzles and drip pans, the central branch entwined with a floral garland, the gadrooned nozzle clasped by foliage and berried leaf drip-pans, supported on a winged dragon biting into the branches, its tail entwined round the naturalistic base of the branches, with foliate cast with cabochons, each struck twice with the 'C' Couronné Poinçon

52 1/2 in. (133.5 cm.) high, 16.5 in. (42 cm.) wide, approximately





Provenance

Commissioned in 1744 by Joseph-Antoine Crozat de Tugny for the grand salon of his hôtel in the Place Vendôme.

By descent to his niece, Antoinette-Louise-Thérèse Crozat de Thiers, Marquise de Béthune-Pologne (1731-1809).

Sold with the hôtel to Geoffroy Chalut de Verin, trésorier de la Dauphine.

By descent to his adopted daughter Madame Deville, wife of Nicolas Deville, fermier général.

Possibly Baron Jean-Georges Schickler (1785-1843) following his purchase of the hôtel de Tugny in 1828.

José Maria Sert (1874-1945), 252 rue de Rivoli, Paris, and by descent to his wife Misia Sert (1872-1950).

The Patiño Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 1 November 1986, lot 52.

Magnificent French Furniture, Silver and Works of Art from the Collection of Hubert de Givenchy; Christie's, Monaco, 4 December 1993, lot 32.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.





Literature

A. d. Castillo Yurrita and A. C. Pellicer, Jose Maria Sert su Vida u su Obra, Barcelona-Buenos Aires, 1947, p. 246, fig. 78.



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