拍品专文
There is an 1802 design by Charles Percier of an almost identical figure holding lotus flowers in both hands. It is illustrated in H.Ottomeyer and P.Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.336, fig.5.3.1. On the same page is illustrated an executed example with two tiers of branches stamped by Thomire. Percier uses similar seated figures in the Receuil de Décorations Intérieures, 1801, pl.XXXII.
The attribution is strengthened by a console table delivered by Thomire and Duterme in 1812 to the Garde Meuble and which is now in the Grand Trianon (see: D.Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et Objets d'Art, Paris, vol.I, pp.20-21.
Larger pairs of this model but with much simplified superstructure were sold anonymously, Christie's London, 7 December 1989, lot 48 and offered anonymously, Sotheby's London, 13 December 1991, lot 262. An identical pair were sold anonymously, Christie's London, 26 March 1981, lot 18. A pair with the same central figure but different branches are illustrated in H.Parrott Bacot, Nineteenth Century Lighting, West Chester, 1987, p.101, no.136
The attribution is strengthened by a console table delivered by Thomire and Duterme in 1812 to the Garde Meuble and which is now in the Grand Trianon (see: D.Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et Objets d'Art, Paris, vol.I, pp.20-21.
Larger pairs of this model but with much simplified superstructure were sold anonymously, Christie's London, 7 December 1989, lot 48 and offered anonymously, Sotheby's London, 13 December 1991, lot 262. An identical pair were sold anonymously, Christie's London, 26 March 1981, lot 18. A pair with the same central figure but different branches are illustrated in H.Parrott Bacot, Nineteenth Century Lighting, West Chester, 1987, p.101, no.136