Pair of Bronze and Ormolu Candlesticks.

French, 1805

Pair of Bronze and Ormolu Candlesticks. French, c. 1805.

Height  9"  (24.5cm).

Two pairs of candlesticks of this model were supplied to the Palace of Fontainebleau in 1804 and 1805 by Claude Galle (1759-1815), and a third pair, with the stars replaced by rosettes, is recorded at Fointainebleau from 1807 (see Jean-Pierre Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d’ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, 1989, figs. F626, F1165C, p. 177).

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