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A PAIR OF EMPIRE BRONZE TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
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A PAIR OF EMPIRE BRONZE TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA

IN THE MANNER OF PERCIER AND FONTAINE, POSSIBLY BY FEUCHÈRE ET CIE.

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE BRONZE TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
In the manner of Percier and Fontaine, possibly by Feuchère et cie.
Each with a classical maiden with billowing robes, on triform bases with hoof feet
23¾in. (60.3cm.) high (2)
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拍品专文

The bronze 'Aurora' candelabra are designed in the antique manner popularised by C. Percier and P.F.L.Fontaine's Recueil de Decorations Interieurs, 1801. Here the dawn and light-bringing deity bears firebrands, while perched on sphere-capped tripod altars, which display flowered trophies of the sun-deity Apollo's darts, while their sarcophagus-scrolled trusses are wrapped by palms and terminate in festive satyr monopodiae.
This pattern of 'girandoles' with 'brandons' was executed by Pierre-Francois Feuchère (d.1823) and Lucien-Francois Feuchère, the celebrated Parisian 'fabricants de bronzes', who were suppliers to the French court and helped furnish the chteau de Compiègne. They invoiced a pair of these candelabra, green-painted and ormolu-enriched, to William Burrell in 1820 (Lincolnshire Archives Office, MSS - 2Anc 6/202/6).