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REF: 4829

PAIR OF FRENCH EMPIRE GILT BRONZE AND MARBLE CANDLESTICKS ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE GALLE (1759-1815)
With a finely incised ormolu bobeche decorated with various geometric patterns sitting on a plain drip-pan which is mounted above three caryatid classical heads adorned with garlands of flowers and each wearing a beaded necklace, above a downward tapering red marble column terminating in three pairs of cast human feet on a circular base
incised with arrows, feathers and stars.
France c. 1805
Variations on this model were supplied by Claude Galle to the Château de Fontainebleau in 1804.

HEIGHT: 32 cm (12½")
DIAMETER: 13 cm (5")

£POA

 

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