An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . XVI. CANDELABRA. Second Half iSth Century 365 by Honore Fragonard, who was a pupil of Boucher. Hewas born in 1732 and died in 1806. On page 364 will befound an interior showing the costumes of the time, also aclock of Sevres porcelain frame, lyre shape, gros-bleu, withchased ormolu mounts, the dial painted with the signs ofthe Zodiac by Cotteau, and the pendulum formed by a ringof p
An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . XVI. CANDELABRA. Second Half iSth Century 365 by Honore Fragonard, who was a pupil of Boucher. Hewas born in 1732 and died in 1806. On page 364 will befound an interior showing the costumes of the time, also aclock of Sevres porcelain frame, lyre shape, gros-bleu, withchased ormolu mounts, the dial painted with the signs ofthe Zodiac by Cotteau, and the pendulum formed by a ringof paste diamonds. The works are by Kinable, and the metalmounting by Duplessis. Length. 2 ft. J in. ; width, io£ in. On this page some candelabra are illustrated. No. 1has six branches, and is from the Petit Trianon. No. 2 is one of a pair, for three lights, of chased ormolu ;two female figures, supporting a vase, from which springbranches of lilies, and resting on an oval base with festoonsof flowers and gadroons. Middle of 18th century. Height,23i in. No. 3 is also for three lights, one of a pair, of bronzeand ormolu; a female figure holding a cornucopia and standingon a marble pedestal. Late 18th No. 1.
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