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Candelabra with Figure of Zephyrus (One of a Pair)

 (French, ca. 1747–1812)
Dateca. 1790
MediumGilt bronze on marble
Dimensions32 3/4 x 10 1/8 in. (83.2 x 25.7 cm)
Credit LineHenry Clay Frick Bequest
Accession number1914.6.11
Collection History

Lord Henry Seymour, Paris (d. 1859). His sale, Paris, February 23–28, 1860, Lot 166, acquired by his elder brother, Richard Seymour-Conway, fourth Marquess of Hertford, Paris. The latter’s son, Sir Richard Wallace, Bart., Paris, 1870. Lady Wallace, Paris, 1890. Sir John Murray Scott, Bart., Paris, 1897. Bequeathed by him to Josephine Victoria, Baroness Sackville, Paris, 1912. Jacques Seligmann, Paris, 1913. Frick, 1914 (through Elsie de Wolfe, acting as intermediary).

Source: Furniture in The Frick Collection: French 18th- & 19th-Century Furniture (Pt. 2) & Gilt Bronzes. Volume VI. New York: The Frick Collection, 1992.

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