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AIR OF EMPIRE SIX-LIGHT GILT BRONZE
CANDELABRA – CIRCA 1810-1815
Signed THOMIRE A PARIS
Height: 95 cm. (37 ½ in.)
Width of branches: 31.5 cm. (12 ½ in.) Depth of branches: 26 cm. (10 ¼ in.)
Width of base: 25.5 cm. (10 in.) Depth of base: 29 cm. (11 ½ in.)
PROVENANCE
Michel David-Weill
Private collection of Maurice Ségoura, Paris (the candelabra are visible in a
photograph of the dining room of his private apartment, immeuble Walter, Paris,
decorated by Daniel Pasgrimaud)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Identical pairs:
- Tsarskoye Selo, Russia.
- H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p.
304, pl. XXXVI (signed thomire a paris).
Similar pairs:
- J. Niclausse, Thomire, fondeur-ciseleur (1751-1843), Paris, 1947, pl. 22.
- Musée Marmottan, Paris (inv. 341), illustrated in L’Empire. Musée Marmottan,
Paris, abc Collection, July 1977, pp. 64-65.
- J. Barreau et al., Hôtel de Salm, Palais de la Légion d’Honneur, Paris, 2009, fig.
199.
- Sold Christie’s Monaco, 15 December 1996, lot 171.
AN EMPIRE SILVER-GILT EWER AND BASIN – CIRCA
1810-1819
Hallmarked for Paris, 1810-1819
Mark of the goldsmith Marc-Augustin Lebrun (his second mark, ML, a weathervane and
an eagle), engraved circa 1810-1811
In its original box in green Morocco leather with gilt tooling
Height of ewer: 37 cm. (14 ½ in.)
Dimensions of basin: Length: 40 cm. (15 ¾ in.) Width: 26.5 cm. (10 ½ in.)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A ewer and basin of the same model is in the musée du Louvre (inv. OA11751).
Another of the same model formerly belonging to the Duc d’Aumale is in the Musée
Condé at Chantilly (inv. 105 327).
The foot restored
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CANDELABRA – CIRCA 1810-1815
Signed THOMIRE A PARIS
Height: 95 cm. (37 ½ in.)
Width of branches: 31.5 cm. (12 ½ in.) Depth of branches: 26 cm. (10 ¼ in.)
Width of base: 25.5 cm. (10 in.) Depth of base: 29 cm. (11 ½ in.)
PROVENANCE
Michel David-Weill
Private collection of Maurice Ségoura, Paris (the candelabra are visible in a
photograph of the dining room of his private apartment, immeuble Walter, Paris,
decorated by Daniel Pasgrimaud)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Identical pairs:
- Tsarskoye Selo, Russia.
- H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p.
304, pl. XXXVI (signed thomire a paris).
Similar pairs:
- J. Niclausse, Thomire, fondeur-ciseleur (1751-1843), Paris, 1947, pl. 22.
- Musée Marmottan, Paris (inv. 341), illustrated in L’Empire. Musée Marmottan,
Paris, abc Collection, July 1977, pp. 64-65.
- J. Barreau et al., Hôtel de Salm, Palais de la Légion d’Honneur, Paris, 2009, fig.
199.
- Sold Christie’s Monaco, 15 December 1996, lot 171.
AN EMPIRE SILVER-GILT EWER AND BASIN – CIRCA
1810-1819
Hallmarked for Paris, 1810-1819
Mark of the goldsmith Marc-Augustin Lebrun (his second mark, ML, a weathervane and
an eagle), engraved circa 1810-1811
In its original box in green Morocco leather with gilt tooling
Height of ewer: 37 cm. (14 ½ in.)
Dimensions of basin: Length: 40 cm. (15 ¾ in.) Width: 26.5 cm. (10 ½ in.)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A ewer and basin of the same model is in the musée du Louvre (inv. OA11751).
Another of the same model formerly belonging to the Duc d’Aumale is in the Musée
Condé at Chantilly (inv. 105 327).
The foot restored
65
