A Pair of Italian Neoclassical Gilt and Patinated Bronze Three-Light Candelabra, Attributed to Giuseppe Boschi, Rome, Circa 1800

Born in 1766, Giuseppe Boschi was active in Rome in 1783 and awarded the prize from the Saint Luc Academy. Although very renowned for his Antiquity scale models, his versions were less expensive than those made by Righetti or Valadier. The architect Charles Tatham greatly appreciated Boschi's craftsmanship with whom he probably collaborated regularly. He commissioned several candlesticks for Carlton House, the Prince of Wales's London residence. 

These candlesticks are very close to a Boschi design in the Victoria and Albert Museum with minor differences along the base. The same cranes appear on another pair of gilt bronze and rosso antico marble at the Pitti Palace, published by Alvar Gonzales-Palacios in Il Tempio del Gusto, Milan, 1984, vol. II, fig. 283. All these models were derived from the famous Newdigate Candelabra belonging to Piranesi, who restored them and are now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

A pair of gilt bronze candlesticks of this model from the private collection of Alvar Gonzales-Palacios was sold Replica Shoes 's Paris, 29 March 2007, lot 87.