FRENCH GILT BRONZE: CANDELABRA AND CANDLESTICKS 95- Pair of Candlesticks
Paris, circa 1680-1690
Gilt bronze
Height: 10 in. (25.4 cm); Diameter: 5% in.
(14.6 cm)
Accession number 72 .DF.56.1—.2
PROVENANCE
Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, Vienna;
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Vienna;
confiscated by the Third Reich in March
1938; restituted to the Baroness Clarice de
Rothschild, Vienna, in 1947; [Rosenberg
and Stiebel, Inc., New York, 1971]; pur
chased by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
p. 58, illus. - Pair of Girandoles
Paris, circa 1730
Rock crystal; gilt bronze
Height: 2 ft. 10 in. (86.3 cm); Width:
2 ft. % in. (62.3 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 2^34 in.
(37.5 cm)
Accession number 75 .DF.53.1-.2
PROVENANCE
[Kraemer et Cie, Paris]; purchased by
J. Paul Getty.
151. Pair of Candlesticks
Paris, circa 1780
By Etienne Martincourt
Gilt bronze
Each candlestick stamped MARTINCOURT
under base. One inscribed Louis Antoine
Blois and LA inside base.
Height: 1134 in. (29.9 cm); Diameter: 5^3 /s in.
(13.7 cm)
Accession number 72 .DF.48.1-.2
PROVENANCE
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Sassoon, Pope's
Manor, Berkshire, by 1914; Violet Sassoon
(Mrs. Derek C. Fitzgerald) (sold, Christie's,
London, March 23,1972, lot 59); purchased
at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
London, The Burlington Fine Arts Club,
1914, no. 117.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
F. J. B. Watson, Wallace Collection Cata
logues: Furniture (London, 1956), p. 95;
Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
p. 230, illus.
One of a pair 151One of a pair 150