A pair of Louis XVI gilt and blue-patinated bronze candelabra, circa 1784-1786, attributed to Lucien-François Feuchère
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300,000 - 500,000 EUR
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A pair of Louis XVI gilt and blue-patinated bronze candelabra, circa 1784-1786, attributed to Lucien-François Feuchère
with three scrolling spirally-fluted branches with flame moulded nozzles, gadrooned sconces and branches overlaid with grape-vines and acanthus, the candle arms issuing from a central stem centred by a hanging eagle mask below a vigorously modelled brûle parfum in blued metal and gilt-bronze, the bodies in the form of vases of classical amphora shape with handles in the form of female terms in Egyptian head-dress terminating in overscrolled foliage, grapevines, groups of pearls, poppies and other flowers, supported on a waisted spreading fluted socle and a further square stepped bases
height 1ft. 3½in.; width 1ft. 5¾in.; depth 10½in; 131 cm; 45 cm; 26,5 cm.
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Paire de candélabres en bronze doré et bleui d'époque Louis XVI, vers 1784-86, attribué à Lucien-François Feuchère
height 1ft. 3½in.; width 1ft. 5¾in.; depth 10½in; 131 cm; 45 cm; 26,5 cm.
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by repute, Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France;
Bought in 1852 by M.A. Barker from Mons. Collot for Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild;
Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, where they are recorded in the Mentmore unpublished inventory, an updated printed bound volume of about 1876, and in the Mentmore catalogue compiled by Hannah de Rothschild and published by R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh in 1883, and again in two illustrated volumes in 1884, in the White Drawing Room, p. 64, nos. 14, 15, 16, 17;
Hannah de Rothschild, Countess of Roseberry, Mentmore Towers;
Albert Primrose, 6th Earl of Roseberry, Mentmore Towers;
Sotheby's London, 17 April 1964, lot 24;
Private collection, Paris, late 1960s;
Acquired privately through Replica Shoes 's, 2013.
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par tradition, Marie-Antoinette, reine de France;
Acheté en 1852 par M.A. Barker à Mons. Collot pour le baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild;
Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, où ils figurent dans l'inventaire de Mentmore, un volume relié imprimé et mis à jour vers 1876, et dans le catalogue Mentmore, compilé par Hannah de Rothschild et publié par R. & R. Clark d'Edimbourg en 1883, puis à nouveau en deux volumes illustrés en 1884, dans le salon blanche, p. 64, n° 14, 15, 16, 17;
Hannah de Rothschild (comtesse de Roseberry), Mentmore Towers;
Albert Primrose, 6e comte de Roseberry (depuis 1855), Mentmore Towers;
Sotheby's Londres, 17 avril 1964, lot 24;
Collection privée, Paris, fin des années 1960;
Vente privée chez Replica Shoes 's, 2013.
“French Furniture at the Exhibition of ‘Three French Reigns’, 25 Park Lane,” Country Life 73–1884 (February 25, 1933), p. 206, figs. 5, 7
Ottomeyer and Proschel, Vergöldete Bronzen Vol. 1 Munich 1986; p. 261
Jonathan Bourne and Vanessa Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior: Renaissance to Art Nouveau, London 1991, illus. p. 101, fig. 321
Pauline Prevost-Marcilhacy, Les Rothschild, Batisseurs et Mecènes, Paris 1995, p. 111–113, notes 155, 156, 158, pp. 290–291
H. Clouzot, Des Tuilleries à Saint-Cloud. L’art Décoratif sous le Second Empire, Paris 1925
Egyptomania, L’Egypte dans l’art Occidental 1730–1930, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Louvre 20 January–18 September 1994, p. 124, no. 49
Gillian Wilson, Decorative Art in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1977; The illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu 1993, p. 97
P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siecle, Paris 1987
D. Alcouffe, A. Dion-Tenenbaum, G. Mabille, Gilt bronzes in the Louvre, Dijon 2004, n. 92, p. 178 and n. 115, p. 228
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