Lot n° 232
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8000 - 12000
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Pair of six-light candelabra in chased, gilded or patinated - Lot 232
Pair of six-light candelabra in chased, gilded or patinated bronze; the sinuous light arms with foliage and rosettes supported by a column topped by a swan with outstretched wings holding a crown and resting on a terrace embellished with an archer. The bases are adorned with applique motifs of a charioteer driving a bige; the sides with shields inscribed "XLV OLP"; the bases with doucine friezes of lambrequins with florets.
Attributed to Claude GALLE.
Empire period.
H : 90 cm
An identical pair of candelabra, to be attributed to the work of Claude Galle, is preserved at the Grand Trianon (inv.
T 51 C.1, T 51 C.2) and illustrated in Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Inventaire général du musée national de Versailles et des Trianons, Tome I, Le Grand Trianon, Meubles et objets d'art, p. 90, as well as in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel,Vergoldete Bronzen: Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus. Band I: Katalog der Bronzearbeiten, ed.
Klinkhardt & Biermann, München, 1986, p. 391, ill. 5.17.6.
Claude Galle (1759-1815) was one of the most important Parisian bronzemakers of the late 18th century and Empire period. Initially, he collaborated with the foundryman Antoine-André Ravrio and with Jean-Hauré, through whom he participated in the creation of some of Guillaume Benneman's cabinetwork for the Crown. Under the Consulate and Empire, he became one of the main competitors of his colleague Pierre-Philippe
Thomire and supplied numerous bronze furnishings for the Imperial Garde-meuble, including the palaces of Compiègne and Fontainebleau, as well as the Quirinale Palace in Rome and the Stupinigi Palace in Turin.
Stupinigi in Turin. He retired from business around 1813, and his son Gérard-Jean took over his father's workshop.
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