PICHON & NOUDEL-DENIAU, Commissaires-Priseurs
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PAIR OF LARGE CANDELABRES WITH A CROWN OF FIVE LIGHTS AND A …
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210
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PAIR OF LARGE CANDELABRES WITH A CROWN OF FIVE LIGHTS AND A …
See original version (French)
Estimate €500 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
PAIR OF LARGE CANDELABRES WITH A CROWN OF FIVE LIGHTS AND A CENTRAL LIGHT, Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III period, in gilded bronze with a brown patina and Neoclassical decoration
Hollowed-out triangular base with water-leaf moulding
H. 62 cm
D. 26 cm
(gilding soiled; missing their central candle holders)
Provenance | Collection of Henri Dupuy de Lôme for his estate in the Var, then passed down through the family
Biography |
Stanislas Henri Laurent Dupuy de Lôme
Engineer in the French Navy (Ploemeur 1816–Paris 1885).
He built the first steamship, the Napoléon (1850), and the first armoured frigate, the Gloire (1858), which served as a model for the navy of the Second Empire. Member of the Council of State and Member of Parliament for Morbihan. In 1870, he succeeded in getting sixty airships out of besieged Paris. He had been a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1866.
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