Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

Noble & Private Collections Including Property from Corby Castle, Cumbria, and Marco Voena’s London Pied-à-Terre

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 113. A pair of Empire gilt and patinated bronze four-light candelabra by Claude-François Rabiat, probably for Pierre-Philippe Thomire, circa 1810.

Property from Marco Voena's London pied-à-terre (lots 106-131)

A pair of Empire gilt and patinated bronze four-light candelabra by Claude-François Rabiat, probably for Pierre-Philippe Thomire, circa 1810

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Live auction begins on:

November 19, 01:30 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Bid

30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

each Candelabra with a winged figure of Victory standing on a sphere with stars and holding aloft a wreath laurel, above a high square base decorated with applications in front of War Trophies, and wreaths in both sides, on a rouge griotte marble base, the nozzles drilled for electricity, inside the acanthus sections, above the spheres, each stamped “Rabiat”


113.5cm high, 28cm wide; 44 3/4in., 11in.

Private collection, Switzerland;

Koller, Zurich, Furniture, Porcelain & Decoration, 26th March 2015, lot 1242;

Burzio, London.