BY CLAUDE GALLE OR PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, CIRCA 1810

Name: A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Brand: BY CLAUDE GALLE OR PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, CIRCA 1810
Price: 16000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 20,160

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Closed: 22 Oct 2024

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

BY CLAUDE GALLE OR PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, CIRCA 1810

Price Realised USD 20,160

Closed: 22 Oct 2024

Price Realised USD 20,160

Closed: 22 Oct 2024

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Each modeled with a standing female figure holding a tapering candle holder in one hand and four branches in the other, on a cylindrical plinth with a frieze of dancing maidens supported by three winged lions, above a tripartite base
41¹⁄₄ in. (105 cm.) high

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2007, lot 156.
Property of an Important Private European Collector; Christie’s, London, 8 December 2011, lot 128.

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Lot Essay

Two pairs of candelabra of this model, but each with eight branches, were supplied by Claude Galle (1759-1815) in 1807 for the at the château de Fontainebleau. In the 1808 inventory they are described as (J.-P. Samoyault, , Paris, 1989, p. 157, fig. 134). A further pair was delivered by Pierre-François Feuchère (1737-1823) to the château de Compiègne in 1810 (H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel , , Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 334, fig 5.2.16). Other examples of this model have sold at Christie's, London, 5 July 2001 (£51,700) and Christie's, Paris, 13 December 2006, lot 351 (€60,000).