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LOT 1554
Enamelled Bronze Candlestick
19TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
6 in. (205 grams, 15cm high).
With three feet, cylindrical stem with scale detailing and bulbous five-sided collar, lobed dish and conical spike with rounded tip, polychrome champlevé enamelling to the scrolled foliate panels in Limoges style.
ProvenanceFrench collection, 1990s-early 2000s.
with Daguerre Auction, Paris, 18 December 2017, lot 101, with lot tag.
From an important Paris gallery, France.
Ex private Parisian collection.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, accession number 47.101.38, for a broadly comparable example.
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LOT 1554
Enamelled Bronze Candlestick
Estimate £1,000 - 1,400€1,160 - 1,620 (for guidance only)$1,350 - 1,890 (for guidance only)
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