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A Pair of Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Rouge Marble Six-Light Candelabra french, Circa 1890
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description
- height 25 in.
- 63.5 cm
each vasiform standard surrounded by curved supports issuing curved leaf-cast candlearms, the whole cast with garlands of fruit, raised on an incurved triangular base.
Catalogue Note
This pair of candelabra are comparable to a set of candelabras supplied by the marchand-mercier Darnault for the Salon du Jeu de Mesdames in the Château de Bellevue and now conserved in the Petit-Trianon at Versailles. See: P. Verlet, Les Bronzes du XVIIIeme siecle, Paris 1987, p. 99, plate 11; Hans Ottomeyer/Peter Pröschel,Vergoldete Bronzen, vol I, Munich, 1986, p. 261.