A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL LOUIS-PHILIPPE WHITE MARBLE AND GILTWOOD FIVE-LIGHT FIGURAL TORCHERES

Lot 13
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Lot 13 | A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL LOUIS-PHILIPPE WHITE MARBLE AND GILTWOOD FIVE-LIGHT FIGURAL TORCHERES
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£ 60 000 – 90 000
A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL LOUIS-PHILIPPE WHITE MARBLE AND GILTWOOD FIVE-LIGHT FIGURAL TORCHERES

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Each modelled as a partially robed classical nymph bearing a cornucopia issuing five candle branches carved with leaves and berries and with scrolling terminals and petal and foliate driptrays, centred by a branch applied with leaves and flowerheads, on associated laurel wreath-moulded plinth, fitted for electricity

98 in. (250 cm.) high; 20.5 in. (52 cm.) wide; 20.5 in. (52 cm.) deep





Provenance

Probably King Louis-Philippe, Château de Neuilly (according to the 1884 Mentmore catalogue),

Acquired by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild or Hannah de Rothschild, wife of the 5th Earl of Rosebery for Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, and by descent.

The 6th Earl of Rosebery, sold Mentmore, Sotheby's, 20 May 1977, lot 243 (then a set of four).

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, Monaco, 23 February 1986, lot 733.



Literature

Mentmore [privately printed catalogue], Vol. II, Edinburgh, 1884, p. 50, nos. 40-43 as 'Statue of white marble representing a female draped figure, life-size, holding cornucopia. Workmanship French; period Louis XV' and three companion figures. One illustrated in the Dining Room, p. 47.



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