Lot 11
Lot 11
A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND VERT DE MER MARBLE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, CIRCA 1810

Price Realised USD 20,000
Estimate
USD 20,000 - USD 30,000
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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND VERT DE MER MARBLE SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, CIRCA 1810

Price Realised USD 20,000
Price Realised USD 20,000
Details
Each modeled as a classically-draped maiden supporting scrolling branches and standing on a stepped plinth mounted with laurel wreaths
3512 in. (90 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired from Partridge, London, 1993.
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Elizabeth SeigelVice President, Specialist, Head of Private and Iconic Collections
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Lot Essay

Pierre-François Feuchère, maître in 1763, was a popular and prolific ciseleur-doreur working in Paris with his son Lucien-François in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Near identical pairs of candelabra were listed in the sale of the contents of Pierre-François Feuchère's stock in 1829 described as "Trois paires de girandoles figures dites jambes croises, avec groupes de six lumires; elles sont dores et au vert. Cet article sera divis.," see Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, pp. 334, fig. 5.2.14. Each pair sold for between 190 and 206 francs. A pair of candelabra of this design sold Christie's, London, 23 June 1999, lot 13 (£38,900).

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