A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1809, OF THE MODEL SUPPLIED BY A.T. BAUDOIN FOR THE ROI D'ESPAGNE

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1809, OF THE MODEL SUPPLIED BY A.T. BAUDOIN FOR THE ROI D'ESPAGNE
Each modelled with a stylised swan on an orb issuing cornucopiae-form branches, the palm-leaf ornamented columnar stems each with an archer on a plinth base, two branches later and bows replaced
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high (2)

Literature

D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Paris, 1975, p.90. H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, pp.391, fig. 5.17.6

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Lot Essay

These candelabra are of the model supplied by A.T. Baudoin in 1809 for the Hôtel Marbeuf, residence of the Roi d'Espagne and later placed in the Grand Salon of the Château de Bagatelle in 1814, until moved to the chambre de la Reine at the Grand Trianon in 1837.
Closely related examples include a pair sold Christie's, New York, 17-18 May 2005, lot 559, a pair sold Ader Tajan, Paris, 28 September 1993, lot 79 and a further pair sold Sotheby's, London, 16 June 1989, lot 138.

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