A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU AND BLUED SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA third quarter 19th century

With its flowering branches upheld by female figures seated on a vase, this lot relates to a pair of Louis XVI ormolu and patinated bronze, and thus also bi-color, candelabra sold Christie's London, May 19, 1983, lot 35. The vases of that and this lot are similar in design to a small group of candelabra attributed to Pierre Gouthière or François Rémond and now in the Frick, Wallace and Huntington Collections; see Theodore Dell, Furniture in the Frick Collection, Vol. VI, New York, 1992, pp. 267-275; Peter Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, Vol. III, London, 1996, pp. 1236-1240; and Shelley M. Bennett and Carolyn Sargentson eds., French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington, New Haven and London, 2008, pp. 168-171, respectively.