A pair of Italian silvered bronze candelabra signed B. Boschetti.Roma circa 1850

each with six scrolled acanthus leaf-cast candlearms with lobed anthemion cast candle-nozzles, flanking a further raised central candle-nozzle, the stem with three addorsed rams' heads entwined with ivy leaves and berries, the base with three addorsed rampant lions with their front paws supported globes, on a concave sided triform base

Sold as lot 386, Christie's, London, 6th June 2001.

Enrico Colle, Roberto Valeriani and Angela Griseri, Bronzi Decorativi in Italia, MIlan, 2001, p. 236, illustrated.

Comparative Literature:
Alvar Gonzalez-Palacios, Il Tempio del Gusto, Vol.II, Milan, 1984, p. 131, fig. 286, fig. 287, p. 132, fig. 288

Benedetto Boschetti is to date not well documented although some of his works have been identified and his workshop in Via Condotti, no. 74, was listed in 1856, by Bonfigli in the Artistical Directory or Guide to the Studios of The Italian and Foreign Painters and Sculptors, Rome, 1856, which stated, 'The Establishment is particularly conspicuous for its great variety of marble works, bronzes, candelabras, table tops, etc. besides a rich collection of the best mosaics and shell engravings' and Boschetti had attained the Prize Medal at the Exhibition in London.

Boschetti is also mentioned in the 1858, 1867 and 1869 editions of Murray's Handbook, p.XXVI, sec. 36.

Other known works by the present maker and signed 'B. Boschetti' include a bronze copy of the famous relief of Antinous in the Villa Albani which appeared in a sale in Florence in 1974; a copy in rosso antico marble of the Warwick vase in the Ohio Museum, Toledo, see A.G.P, op. cit. p. 131, fig. 286; and a tripod from the Villa d'Iside in Pompei in the collection of the Knights of Glin, Ireland as mentioned by A.G.P. in the note to the Gilbert Collection.

A bronze oli lamp signed B. Boschetti, Roma were sold in these Rooms as lot 87, 14th June 2000. 

Also see a highly important micromosaic table top signed B. Boschetti, dated 1829, the top with the inventory marks of Isabelle de Montpensier, the Comtesse de Paris was sold in these rooms as lot 250, on 13th December 1996.