One of a pair 152- Pair of Candelabra
Elephants: German (Meissen manufactory),
circa 1741-1745
Flowers: (?) Vincennes manufactory, circa
1745-1750
Mounts: Paris, circa 1750
Elephants modeled by Peter Reinicke
in 1741
Hard-paste porcelain elephants; soft-paste
porcelain flowers; gilt-bronze mounts
Height: 97s in. (23.2 cm); Width: 9% in.
(24.7 cm); Depth: \V% in. (10.5 cm)
Accession number 75.DI.68.1—.2
PROVENANCE
Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-
Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main; [Rosenberg
and Stiebel, Inc., New York, 1975]; pur
chased by J. Paul Getty.
153 Pair of Candelabra
Paris, circa 1775
Attributed to Pierre Gouthiére
Gilt bronze
Height: 1 ft. 3 in. (38.3 cm); Width: 8% in.
(21.6 cm); Depth: y^7 /s in. (19.9 cm)
Accession number 72 .DF.43.1-.2
PROVENANCE
(?) Baron Henri de Rothschild, Paris;
[Fran$ois-Gerard Seligmann, Paris, circa
1948]; Carreras Savedra, Director of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires;
[Jacques Helft, Buenos Aires]; [French and
Co., New York]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.One of a pair 153BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,
p. 230, illus.- Pair of Candelabra
Paris, circa 1785
Attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire and
Louis-Simon Boizot
Patinated and gilt bronze; white and griotte
marble
Height: 2 ft. 10^34 in. (83.2 cm); Diameter:
uVx in. (29.2 cm)
Accession number 86 .DF.521.1—.2
PROVENANCE
(?) Anatole Demidov, Prince of San Donato,
San Donato Palace, Pratolino, near Florence
(sold, San Donato Palace, March 15,1880,
lot 804, en suite with a mantel clock);
[Bernard Baruch Steinitz, Paris].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1986," GettyMusJ15 (1987),
no. 109, p. 214, illus.; Handbook 1991, p. 196,
illus.
96 FRENCH GILT BRONZE: CANDELABRA