Sèvres porcelain and giltbronze candelabra

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

For luxuous pieces of French furniture and furnishings of eighteenth century, I know a good address: Sotheby's Paris. As I have already written in the group Furniture, this house brings great decorative care to their exhibitions before sales, and their room in the Galerie Charpentier is then transformed into the interior of a palace. The catalogues are extremely detailed.

The sale of October 2 will be entirely devoted to a collection.

Lot 48, a pair of candelabra, is typical of top French taste of the reign of Louis XVI and its royal origin confirms it as one of the highlights of the sale.

The main ornament of each piece is a draped caryatide figure in biscuit de Sèvres according to a model of Louis Boizot Simon, head of the sculpture workshop of the factory. It is mounted on a cylindrical base also in Sèvres, and supports five gilded bronze arm lights decorated with arabesques. The mount could be attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire, who was the titular bronzier of Sevres. The total height is 128 cm.

This pair was probably the one offered by Louis XVI in 1785 to his cousin Princess of Asturias, and was later transferred from the royal family of Spain to the very prestigious collection of Mentmore Towers.

It is estimated 800 K €.

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

The pieces of highest decoration from the French eighteenth century can make prices equivalent to the top pieces of furniture. Here is a proof with our pair of candelabra, sold 1.4 million € fees included.