A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND VERT MAURIN MARBLE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA

OF EMPIRE STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU, PATINATED BRONZE AND VERT MAURIN MARBLE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
OF EMPIRE STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each modelled as a winged figure holding aloft an arrow quiver candelabrum issuing four scrolled-branches, atop a panelled marble plinth set with ormolu wreaths, on a spreading stiff leaf cast foot
38½ in. (98 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

These candelabra with winged figures of Victory derive from a design for similar candelabra by the architect Charles Percier as part of a commission to furnish Empress Josephine's bedroom at the château de Saint-Cloud (illustrated in M.L. Myers, French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1991, pp. 157-160, cat. 98).

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