ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE OR PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE OR PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a classical maiden holding aloft a four-light acanthus and anthemion torch in one hand, and a single conforming torch in the other, on a circular base decorated with dancing maidens, above winged recumbent lions and a concave-sided tripartite plinth
43 in. (109 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 5 July 2001, lot 236.

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Lot Essay

Two pairs of candelabra of this model, but with eight branches were supplied by Claude Galle (d. 1815) in 1807 for the Salon D'Imperatrice, Château de Fontainebleau. In the 1808 inventory they are described as 'Deux paires á figures bronzes sur colonne et socle triangulaire portant 8 luminière á 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 to the Chateau de Compiègne (H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 334, fig. 5.2.16).

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