AN IMPORTANT PAIR OF ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA "AUX VICTOIRES"

Description:

Claude Francois Rabiat, Paris, 1805/10circa
H. 59,5 cm
Fire-gilt pedestal with hemisphere, on each of which stands a fully three-dimensional, winged female figure "Victoria" made of patinated bronze, a candlestick with a detachable crown of flames on the head, the two other nozzles each in one hand. Signed "Rabiat" (Claude Francois Rabiat, Paris 1756 - 1815) on the inside of the foot strut. Traces of age.
Similar garandoles with Victoria bronzes are also known from Thomire, C. Galle and others. Lit. H. Ottomeyer / P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen - Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, München 1976; I, no. 5.2.2 ff.