A pair of French gilt-bronze mounted marble candelabra by Sormani of Paris, circa 1870, after the model by Jean-François Lorta

SORMANI’S TRIBUTE TO THE ANCIEN RÉGIME

A pair of French gilt-bronze mounted marble candelabra by Sormani of Paris, circa 1870, after the model by Jean-François Lorta

each three-light candelabrum formed of a marble figure of a classically-dressed maiden with a floral crown made of roses to denote Spring or vines to denote Autumn, each holding aloft a marble torch with gilt-bronze foliate stop-fluting from which issue elaborate foliate scrolls and floral swags terminating in nozzles, the gilt-bronze torch surmounted by a model of a tripod incense burner with an intertwining serpent, the whole raised on porphyry and gilt-bronze bases, stamped to the base SORMANI PARIS, marked to the base of each figure JOAN F.R./LORTA. SCULP.1788

143cm. high, 40cm. wide, 30cm. deep; 4ft. 8¼in., 1ft. 3¾in., 11¾in.