CIRCA 1810

细节

A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU CANDELABRA BASES MOUNTED AS LAMPS
CIRCA 1810
Each with a figure of a Grecian warrior shooting a bow and arrow in front of a foliate-cast columnar shaft with palmette-mounted globe finial, the lamp fitment with swan-form finial, on a rectangular plinth base mounted to the front with Phaeton driving his chariot and the sides with sword and shield inscribed 'XLV/OLP', on a stylized leaf-tip cast base, each with metal plaque stamped '91-FF 2417', electrified, anthemion mounts to base replaced
47 in. (119 cm.) high, overall (2)

拍品专文

These candelabra bases are virtually identical to bases on a pair of candelabra purchased in 1809 by the Imperial Garde Meuble and described in the accounts as 'Une paire de candélabra à six lumières, les tireurs d'arc'. Acquired from the marchand A.T. Badouin, the candelabra were eventually placed in the Grand Salon of the château de Bagatelle in 1814. One of the pair was stolen and the other damaged during the occupation of Paris in 1814, when soldiers camped at Bagatelle, and replacements were furnished by the lustrier Valentin. The replacement candelabra were described in the inventory of Bagatelle as being entièrement doré mat, à l'exception du socle au vert antique. The candelabra were moved to the chambre de la Reine of the Grand Trianon in 1837. (D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon: Meubles et Objets d'art, Paris, 1975, p. 90, and H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p.191, fig. 5.17.6.