A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu candelabra - image-1

Lot 1564 Dα

A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu candelabra

Auction 1174 - overview Cologne
04.06.2021, 12:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.750 € (incl. premium)

A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu candelabra

Ormolu and burnished bronze candlesticks, cast in several parts, resting on red marble plinths. Depicting two putti as caryatids supporting urns from which issue three curved branches with female mascarons surrounding a central vertical branch. A tin solder repair on the underside of one of the upper nozzles, one of the rhombus mountings loose. H 57 cm.
Attributed to France, late 19th C.

Provenance

Private collection, Berlin.

Literature

Cf. Ottomeyer/Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich 1986, illus. 6.3.16., for a fireplace garniture by Henry Dasson, Paris, in the Fogg Art Museum Cambridge, Mass.