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Lot 430 Dα

A pair of ormolu candlesticks with Egyptian caryatids

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
17.05.2023, 14:00 - Furniture Decorative Arts
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 2.520 € (incl. premium)
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A pair of ormolu candlesticks with Egyptian caryatids

Gilt and burnished bronze, cast in several parts and screw-mounted. With small holes in the drip pans, signs of cleaning. H 36.3 cm.
Attributed to a Berlin bronze foundry, early 19th C.

Literature

Cf. Frégnac, Les styles français de Louis XIII à Napoléon III, Paris 1975, p. 183, for a very similar model from the Musée Marmottan.

S.a. Werner, Ägyptomanie in Preussen. Die Tafelskulptur zur Hochzeit im Königshaus 1804, Weimar 2016, cat. nos. 6 and 8, cf. also the foliate crowns of the nozzles.

S.a. Lempertz Berlin auction 1217 on 22nd April 2023, lot 157, for a table candelabrum with standing Egyptian woman as the shaft made of patinated cast iron.