Pp Thomire, Large Pair Of Candelabra From The Empire Period.

Rare pair of large candelabra attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire, in chiseled gilt bronze and bronze with brown patina, representing winged Victories dressed in diaphanous robes, adopting the posture of canephores to support a bouquet of five light arms, the central one simulating a cloud of smoke.
Winding light arms ending with griffin heads on which each of the sockets rests.
The Victories stand, placing one foot on a sphere decorated with an applique griffin. This sphere comes to rest on the cushion of a large octagonal base decorated, on each of its facets, with a vestal, a diamond with an eagle and torches.

An identical pair of candelabra is noted in the 1807 inventory of the Tuileries Palace and referenced in the grand salon of the main apartment of the Pavillon de Flore.
This pair of candelabra is still present in the Tuileries Palace, in the former bedroom of the Countess of Montjoie.
The Mobilier National still has three examples in its collections, ref: (GML 134/1 to 3).

Empire period around 1810

Height: 75 cm

Condition report:
Very beautiful mercury gilding with matt and gloss. Old restorations on one arm and hands. One finger missing.
Current estimate between €20,000 and €30,000.

Bibliography:
-Marie-France Dupuy-Baylet: L'Heure, Le Feu, La Lumière, les bronzes du Mobilier National 1800-1870, 2010, pp. 166-167.
-Dumonthier: "Bronzes d'Eclairage et de chauffage du Mobilier National". Pl. 25.

Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1757-1843):
Received as a master founder on May 18, 1772, he was the most important Parisian bronze-worker of the last quarter of the 18th century and the first decades of the following century. At the beginning of his career, he worked for Pierre Gouthière, the king's chaser-founder, then collaborated from the mid-1770s with Louis Prieur. He then became one of the appointed bronze-workers of the royal manufacture of Sèvres, succeeding Jean-Claude Thomas Duplessis, working on the bronze decoration of most of the great creations of the time. After the Revolution, he bought the business of Martin-Eloi Lignereux and became the largest supplier of bronze furnishings for imperial castles and palaces. In 1785, Thomire was entrusted with the creation of a candelabra commemorating France's involvement in the American War of Independence. Offered to the king, it was placed in his inner cabinet at Versailles, where it is still kept. He made the caryatids and the gilded bronze ornaments of the Schwerdfeger jewelry box, offered by the city of Paris to Queen Marie-Antoinette in 1787. He is also the author of the bronzes of the jewelry box of the Countess of Provence, kept today at Windsor Castle. At the same time, he worked for a wealthy French and foreign private clientele, among whom were some of Napoleon's marshals. Finally, he retired from business in the mid-1820s and died in 1843.


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