Lot 11
Lot 11
Property from the Collection of A. Jerrold Perenchio
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1775

Price Realised USD 17,500
Estimate
USD 7,000 - USD 10,000
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1775

Price Realised USD 17,500
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Price Realised USD 17,500
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Details
Cast as a maiden and a youth respectively and bearing a flower pot issuing tulips, on beaded waisted socle and acanthus-cast square plinth
1512 in. (39.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Previously in the collection of Jack and Belle Linsky.
Acquired from Partridge, London, 1992.
Brought to you by
Victoria Tudor
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Lot Essay

This popular form of mantelpiece 'bronze' garniture, of youthful gardeners bearing flower-pot candle branches, reflect the subject of 'enfants jardiniers' promoted in the 1760s by Boucher's designs for seats to accompany his 'Loves of the Gods' tapestries. These tulip-bearers correspond to the ormolu 'Girandole...à enfant[s] portent des Tulippes', as noted in a Parisian stock-list drawn up between the maître-doreur Jacques Goyer and his father the maître-èbèniste Jean Goyer in 1789. A related pair of candelabra with porphyry bases is in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, a further pair in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and another in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Further related examples offered at auction include a pair with porphyry bases, sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 21 October 1997, lot 215 ($21,850 including premium) and a virtually identical pair from the collection of Giorgio Marsan and Umberta Nasi, offered, Christie's, London, 12-13 December 2007, lot 404.
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