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An Important Pair of Patinated & Gilt bronze Figural Candelabra by Denière of Paris & Henri Picard

An Important Pair of Patinated & Gilt bronze Figural Candelabra by Denière of Paris & Henri Picard

Dimensions: H: 40.5 in / 102 cm  |  Dia: 14.5 in / 37 cm  |  W (base): 10 in / 37 cm

19445

An Important Pair of Patinated & Gilt bronze Figural Candelabra
By Denière of Paris & Henri Picard

Modelled by Carrier-Belleuse (1824-1887)

Constructed from patinated and gilt bronze, in the Louis XIV manner popularised by Jean le Pautre, the figural candelabra representing a man and a woman, distinguished by their dress, on pierced bronze bases, supporting a canopy of 9 arms with rams heads and foliate bobèches. Stamped several times H Picard and signed Denière underneath the base.
French, circa 1865

A nearly identical pair were exhibited by the bronzier Denière at the 1862 London International Exhibition, and illustrated in Waring's celebrated catalogue 'Masterpieces of Industrial Art & Sculpture" on plate 276.

REF No. 9440

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