Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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One of a pair 154

Pair of Candelabra

Paris, circa 1784-1786

Attributed to L. F. Feuchére

Blued metal; gilt bronze

Height: 3 ft. 8^34 in. (113.7 cm); Width:

ι ft. 5^34 in. (45.1 cm); Depth: ιοΥχ in.

(26.7 cm)

Accession number 71 .DF.99.1-.2

PROVENANCE

Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Ment-

more Towers, Buckinghamshire; Hannah

de Rothschild (Countess of Rosebery, wife

of the 5th Earl, married 1878, died 1890),

Mentmore Towers; Albert Primrose,

6th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers,

by inheritance (sold, Sotheby's, London,

April 17,1964, lot 25); [Claude Sere, Paris,

1964]; private collection, Paris, late 1960s;

[Frank Partridge and Sons, Ltd., London,

1971]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.

EXHIBITIONS

London, 25 Park Lane, Three French Reigns,

February-April 1933, no. 485, illus.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"French Furniture at the Exhibition of

'Three French Reigns', 25 Park Lane,"

Country Life 73-1884 (February 25,1933),

p. 206, figs. 5, 7; Ottomeyer and Pröschel,

Vergoldete Bronzen, p. 261, illus.; Jonathan

Bourne and Vanessa Brett, Lighting in the

Domestic Interior: Renaissance to Art Nouveau

(London, 1991), illus. p. 101, fig. 321.

One of a pair 155

FRENCH GILT BRONZE: CANDELABRA 97