A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

Лот 17
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Лот 17 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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£ 30 000 – 50 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

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.



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