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Pair of Candelabra

Date

about 1785

Medium

Gilt and patinated bronze; white and griotte marbles

Culture

French

Department

Decorative Arts

Institution

Getty Museum

Candelabra such as these would have been placed on a mantelpiece, a commode, or a *secrétaire* in a salon of a Parisian townhouse.A drawing now in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris that illustrates a similar candelabra on a mantelpiece helped scholars attribute this piece to the bronze caster Pierre-Philippe Thomire. He frequently used these gilt floral garlands, rams' heads, and bronze griffins as decoration on his pieces.

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