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Pair of candlesticks or torches
Varnished bronze (8 elements)
Dimensions: H. 27 (cm.)
Paris, around 1810
Pair of torches or candlesticks, they rest on a two-level base finely chiseled with guillochis and friezes. The cylindrical barrel and the flared barrel. Very fine carving work and high quality of the 8 elements for this sober model.
A prestigious model
These candlesticks were perhaps made by Thomire. The model is in fact listed in various apartments of the Palais de Fontainebleau and reproduced under the numbers 165 and 166 in "Clocks and furnishing bronzes returned under the first empire to Fontainebleau".
Thomire-Duterme & Cie:
They joined forces in 1804 by taking over the assets of the Daguerre and Lignereux house. Under the company name Thomire, Duterme et Cie, they became the largest suppliers of gilded bronze, employing up to seven hundred workers. Thomire then experienced significant development. He was the first bronze maker to participate in the Exhibition of Industrial Products of 1806, during which he received a gold medal.
Condition report: wear and small shocks.
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