A large French silver candelabra centrepiece, A. Aucoc, Paris, late...
in the Régence style, the quatrefoil base with gadroon border and wood core, engraved with scrolls and classical profiles, with four branches with mask brackets and gadrooned drip-pans, at the centre a large vase on a square base, on four reeded scroll feet, the body with trellis and laurel leaf ornament, at the four corners a female bust and scrolling branch, with a removable silver-plate liner, the cover with gadrooned finial, marked with Minerva, maker's mark and stamped A.AUCOC
81cm, 31⅞in. wide; 60cm, 23⅝in. high
Catalogue Note:
For a similar centrepiece see Christie's, Geneva, 17 November 1997, lot 47.
Provenance:
Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 June 1998, lot 328;
Christie's, Paris, 8 November 2013, lot 110.
in the Régence style, the quatrefoil base with gadroon border and wood core, engraved with scrolls and classical profiles, with four branches with mask brackets and gadrooned drip-pans, at the centre a large vase on a square base, on four reeded scroll feet, the body with trellis and laurel leaf ornament, at the four corners a female bust and scrolling branch, with a removable silver-plate liner, the cover with gadrooned finial, marked with Minerva, maker's mark and stamped A.AUCOC
81cm, 31⅞in. wide; 60cm, 23⅝in. high
Catalogue Note:
For a similar centrepiece see Christie's, Geneva, 17 November 1997, lot 47.
Provenance:
Sotheby's, Geneva, 16 June 1998, lot 328;
Christie's, Paris, 8 November 2013, lot 110.
