One with an armor-clad figure of Mars, the other Minerva, each against a martial trophy of spears and axes, the fasces-form stem surmounted by crossed flags and issuing four trumpet branches, on a stepped square plinth centered by a martial trophy, the candelabra with Minerva inscribed in black ink 'PA' under the square base atop the plinth, and 'Pallas Athena' under the spreading foot at the lower end of the plinth
29¹⁄₂ in. (75 cm.) high

Entered the Otto Hausner collection as a gift from the Imperial Court of Vienna for assistance to the Emperor, by tradition.
Thence by descent, a private collection, Brody, Poland.
Thence by descent, the collection of Alexander Simon.
Thence by descent, the collection of Maria Janina Blizinska.

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The attribution of these striking martial candelabra to Gérard-Jean Galle is based on their close comparison to a pair of candelabra forming the flanking elements of a clock garniture that was signed 'Galle / rue Vivienne nr. 9'. The garniture was ordered in Paris in 1820 for the King of Sweden, at a cost of 2,200 francs. Delivered by 1823 to the Royal Palace in Stockholm, they remain there to this day (H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 396, fig. 5.18.9; the figures erroneously identified as Odysseus and Telemachus; Minerva missing her shield). Gérard-Jean Galle (1788-1846) was the son of the bronzier Claude Galle (1759-1815). A pair of identical candelabra was sold Christie's, London, 13 June 2018, lot 55. A closely related pair with male figures was sold Christie's, New York, 22 May 2002, lot 496.