Paire de chandeliers à quatre lumières en métal argenté par Elkington & Co, Birmingham, 1879

le modèle attribué à et réalisé sous la direction artistique d'Auguste Adolphe Wilms, les fûts en forme de femmes représentant le printemps et l'Eté, les bases repercées, avec des bobèches

Sconces and drippans and branches detach. Branches are numbered, good condition, good candelabra
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Auguste Adolphe Willms naquit le 11 février 1827 au 32 rue de Charenton, de Joseph Willms et Elisabeth Baurgeon. Il travailla pour Jean-Valentin Morel et d'autres avant de partir à Londres en 1844. En 1857, il succéda à Pierre-Emile Jeannest (1813-1815) comme intendant en chef du département des Arts d'Elkington & Co à Birmingham, poste qu'il occupa jusqu'à sa mort en 1899. Qualifié d'artiste ou bien de sculpteur dans les différents documents officiels, il épousa à Paris Adéle Léontine Frévet le 20 Juillet 1854, et fut nommé Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur pour ses travaux présentés lors de l'Exposition Universelle de Paris en 1878.

Auguste Adolphe Willms was born on 11 February 1827 at 32 rue de Charenton, the son of Joseph Willms and his wife, Elisabeth Baurgeon. He worked for Jean-Valentine Morel and others before leaving Paris for London in 1844. In 1857 he succeeded Pierre-Emile Jeannest (1813-1815) as superintendent of the art department at Elkington & Co in Birmingham, a position he held until his death in 1899. Variously described as an artist and sculptor in official documents, Willms was married in Paris on 20 July 1854 to Adéle Léontine Frévet (d. 1916) and was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour for his services in connection with the Paris Exhibition of 1878.