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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Two pairs of candelabra of this model, but each with eight branches, were supplied by Claude Galle (1759-1815) in 1807 for the Salon de l'Impératrice at the château de Fontainebleau. In the 1808 inventory they are described as 'deux paires à figures bronzées sur colonne et socle triangulaire portant 8 lumières à 2000, 4000' (J.-P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, 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 et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, 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).