Pair of Louis XVI Ormolu, Patinated Bronze and Marble Candelabra

Each Greek style classically draped male figure raising a three-light oil lamp shaped top on a square stepped plinth.

The standing draped female figure carrying a torch surmounted by a light locket, raised on a circular base with a laurel wreath border above a square plinth. Electrified with silk cu...

Each with a recumbent winged sphinx with scrolling foliate arabesques to their back, upon a bow-ended rectangular gadrooned plinth, the frieze with a panel applied with entrelacs, on fluted toupie feet. Several models of chenets with sphinx exist, dating from the 1780s. An example with winged sphinxes with headresses and with female mask centering the frieze, attributed to either Pierre Gouthière or Pierre-Philippe Thomire, exists in several versions in the Louvre, Versailles and the Cleveland Museum of Art (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.276, fig. 4.11.14.). This model is based on a drawing by the architect François-Joseph Bélanger in the Bibliothèque Nationale, illustrated op. cit., fig. 4.11.13. Another type of sphinx chenet...

After the antique, his helmet decorated with centaurs and panthers. In Homer’s Illiad, he is described as a hero of colossal frame who was trained by the...

A FINE PAIR OF LOUIS XVI BRONZE, ORMOLU AND STATUARY MARBLE CANDELABRA, CIRCA 1780. Each with rose bud and stiff leaf candle holders bourn by serpents entwined around a staff held b...

Patinated bronze female figures supporting three candle arms, raised on circular red marble section with square bases with guilloche decoration.

Pair of late 19th century Empire bronze and ormolu candelabra. - Caryatid herm female figures on marble block plinths. - Three ormolu candle arms/cups - Well modeled.

Pair of Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted White Marble Six Branch Candelabra, late 19th century, each with scrolled branches issuing from an urn shaped vase, with applied handles and de...