Lot 32
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1790

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
CIRCA 1790
Modelled as a boy and a girl holding a pot issuing two flower branches, on circular marble socles above a square ormolu base with foliate angle clasps, the ormolu bases inscribed ‘Devant/garcon’ and ‘Devant/file’ respectively with dots; the drip-pans associated
15 in. (38 cm.) high
Provenance
By family tradition, the collection of Richard Ford (1796–1858), thence by descent.
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Lot Essay


This popular form of mantelpiece 'bronze' garniture, of youthful gardeners bearing flower-pot candle branches, reflect the subject of 'enfants jardiniers' promoted in the 1760s by Boucher's designs for seats to accompany his 'Loves of the Gods' tapestries. These tulip-bearers correspond to the ormolu 'Girandole...à enfant[s] portent des Tulippes', as noted in a Parisian stock-list drawn up between the maître-doreur Jacques Goyer and his father the maître-èbèniste Jean Goyer in 1789. A related pair of candelabra with porphyry bases is in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, a further pair in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and another in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Further related examples offered at auction include a pair with porphyry bases, sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 21 October 1997, lot 215 ($21,850 including premium), and a virtually identical pair sold from the collection of A. Jerrold Perenchio Chartwell, Christie’s, New York, 1-16 September 2020, lot 11 ($17,500).

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