A Pair of 1ST Empire Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Six-Light Candelabra

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A Pair of 1ST Empire Ormolu and Patinated Bronze Six-Light Candelabra

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Each with a winged figure of Victory holding a perfume-burner with fumes, capped by a later flame finial, issuing the scrolling branches with eagle terminals and cup-shaped beaded nozzles, the canted spreading base with waisted neck and mounted with maidens.

Notes:

The design of these majestic candelabra, with winged figures of Victory holding aloft the candlearms, probably derives from the celebrated drawing in an album of designs by Percier and Fontaine in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (illustrated in M.L. Myers, French Architectural and Ornament Drawings of the Eighteenth Century, New York, 1992, cat. 98, pp. 157-8).

The model of Victory candelabrum is most closely associated with the work of Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843), perhaps the most important bronzier of the Empire period who produced an unparalleled oeuvre spanning ormolu mounts for furniture, sculpture and bronzes d'ameublement, much of it destined for the Imperial court.