Fine Pair of Empire Patinated & Gilt Bronze Candelabre, Mounted as Lamps

Remarks: In original conditioned never electrified

A Fine Pair of French Gilt Bronze Bouillotte Lamps 19th Century With white tole shades Height 21in. Width 13 in. Depth 9 in. Provenance: Private Collection, New York Le Trianon ...

Each with a female figure, one entitled “L’Esperance”, and the other “La Marmote”

A fine Empire style gilt bronze mahogany gueridon or centre table  With a verde antico marble top.  In the manner of Jacob-Desmalter,  circa 1880 Height 31 1/4 Diameter 35 in.   A very fine Empire style gilt bronze-mounted mahogany guéridon after a model by Jacob-Desmalter, the circular verde antico marble top above a mahogany frieze mounted with laurel leaf banding in between rosettes and anthemions, supported of the heads of three finely cast gilt bronze female caryatids, each facing outward with hair in plaits, bare feet and arms crossed, wearing arm bands and a low cut diaphanous dress gathered up toward her breast, the stretcher centred by a chased covered urn flanked by three elegant crouching winged sphinxes wearing Nemes headdresses and plaits tied at the front. The design for this superb guéridon is based on a famous table-console or ‘console double face’ by the celebrated firm of Paris ébénistes Jacob-Desmalter which was itself based on designs by Napoleon’s chief architects and ornamentalistes Charles Percier (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine...

A Fine Pair of Neoclassical Bronze Dore Candelabra With the Mythological Figures of Flora & Zephyr Now mounted as Bouillotte Lamps Early 19th Century Attributed to Thomire...

A Fine Pair of French Bronze Classical Figures Now Mounted as Lamps By Louis Valentin Elias Roberts French 1821-1874 Signed. L.V.E. Robert, each a ...

A pair of Regency gilt and patinated bronze candlesticks now mounted as lamps on circular Siena marble bases, early 19th century. Unusual model. The Regency era of British history officially spanned the years 1811-1820, though the term is commonly applied to the longer period between c.1795 and 1837. King George III succumbed to mental illness in late 1810 and, by the Regency Act 1811, his eldest son George, Prince of Wales, was appointed prince regent...

Fine French Empire 19th Century Bronze Candelabras Mounted as Lamps, Pair A pair of fine French 19th century Empire bronze candelabras that have been electrified and converted to ta...

Pair of ormolu and patinated bronze Empire style table lamps English, Late 19th Century Lamps: height 56cm, diameter 20cm Shades: height 24.5cm, diameter 35cm Crafted during the late 19th century, these fine and delicate antique table...

Each of reeded acanthus wrapped columnar support supporting three candleholders with removable nozzles; raised on three paw feet on an incurved tripartite base; later fitted with two...

A pair of gilt bronze horses each in the form of a galloping horse, raised on a faux marble rectangular plinth with rounded corners and mounted as l...

A Pair of Néo-Grec Parcel-Gilt Patinated Bronze Vases Mounted as Lamps, Cast by Ferdinand Barbedienne, from the Model by Henry Cahieux. Each vase is finely cast with herm-headed handles flanking a slender elongated neck above a tapering body relief-cast with classical figures and anthemion, raised on a square Belgian black marble bases. Cast signatures 'F. BARBEDIENNE FONDEUR.' and 'HENRY CAHIEUX'. This model of vase was exhibited by Barbedienne at the 1855 Paris 'Exposition Universelle' to great acclaim. They were illustrated in the Exhibition Catalogue alongside a classical revival tripod. The pair of vases together with another were described as follows: The two vases (...) selected from many exquisite and beautiful decorative works in bronze from the atelier of Messrs. Barbedienne & Cie, of Paris; they are formed, and ornamented, on the best models of the ancient Greek. The tall slender shape of the vases with their elongated necks and a flaring mouth, in the form of anamphora with two handles, is derived from ancient Greek Loutrophoroi, which were ceremonial vases...