Изящная пара девятисвечных канделябров из позолоченной и патинированной бронзы в неоклассическом стиле

Описание

A Fine Pair of Neoclassical Style Gilt and Patinated Bronze Nine-Light Candelabra by Ferdinand Barbedienne.

Each candelabra has a central gilt-bronze vase shaped nozzle issuing nine scrolling foliate branches with circular drip-pans and fluted nozzles, above a patinated bronze vase decorated all over with classical mythological scenes, headed to each side by fantastical mask form handles, above a sprerading circular base inscribed ‘F. Barbedienne’, on a spreading fluted rouge girotte marble base with gilt-bronze acanthus and paw cast feet.

The superbly cast mask form handles to the side of each vase are modelled as chimerical ibex after the model of vase by the celebrated eighteenth-century sculptor Clodion (1738-1814), made during his time at the French Academy in Rome from 1762 to 1771. One noted terracotta example, formerly in the collection of the princely Russian Dolgoroukov family, is now in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg (H.CK-2093), exhibited at the Clodion exhibition, musee du Louvre in 1992. A related example in marble, notably in the treatment of the masks, is in the Wallace Collection, London (S32).

Франция, около 1870 года.