Lot Details
Lot 545
Pair of Louis XV Style Gilt-Bronze and Porcelain Three-Light Candelabra
Each with kneeling figure holding a bowl, within flowering branches. Height overall 13 3/4 inches (35 cm), width 11 1/4 inches (28.5 cm), height of figure 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm).
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Estimate: $800 - $1,200
Sold for $625 (includes buyer's premium)
Additional Notes & Condition Report
there are breaks, restoration and overpaint to the porcelain bowls that are being held by each of the kneeling figures; each candelabrum has losses to its porcelain blossoms; each also has losses to the petals on some of the porcelain blossoms; the three nozzles and corresponding three foliate drip cups on one candelabrum are slightly bent and angled forward rather than positioned straight and upright; one of the kneeling porcelain figures is currently detached (not affixed) to its underlying metal mount/support; each kneeling figure is affixed to a thin wood support or base and both of these wood bases have been previously broken into two halves and repaired; at least one of the wires and the accompanying porcelain blossom that otherwise would be present and emanate from the central stem is now missing; uniform wear/dulling and soiling to gilding on metal mounts; porcelain not blacklighted
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