CIRCA 1809, PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY ANTOINE-THIBAUT BAUDOIN

Name: A PAIR OF LARGE EMPIRE ORMOLU SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Brand: CIRCA 1809, PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY ANTOINE-THIBAUT BAUDOIN
Price: 15000.00 GBP
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Closed: 9 Apr 2025

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A PAIR OF LARGE EMPIRE ORMOLU SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA

CIRCA 1809, PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY ANTOINE-THIBAUT BAUDOIN

Closed: 9 Apr 2025

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Each modelled with a stylised swan on an orb issuing cornucopiae-form branches, the palm-leaf ornamented columnar stems each with an archer on a plinth base, two branches later and bows replaced
Each: 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 15¹⁄₂ in. (39.5 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25 cm.) deep

Stephane Boudin at 5 Belgrave Square, Les Objets de l'Empire & Mount Kennedy, Ireland. Three Private Collections; Christie's, London, 16 March 2012, lot 197, where acquired by the present owner.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
E. Dumonthier, Les Bronzes du Mobilier National, Paris.
D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Grand Trianon, Paris, 1975, p. 90.
H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, pp.391, fig. 5.17.6.
P. Arizzoli-Clémentel, Le mobilier de Versailles: Chefs d'oeuvres du XIXe siècle, 2009, p. 272, cat. 97.

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Lot Essay

These candelabra are of the model supplied by Antoine-Tibaut Baudoin in 1809 for the Hôtel Marbeuf, residence of Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain and later placed in the Grand Salon of the Château de Bagatelle in 1814, until moved to the at the Grand Trianon in 1837.
Closely related examples include a pair sold Christie's, New York, 17-18 May 2005, lot 559, a pair sold Ader Tajan, Paris, 28 September 1993, lot 79 and a further pair sold Sotheby's, London, 16 June 1989, lot 138.