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Pair of candelabra with violets Fire-gilt and burnished bronze. Three-armed candelabra on angular pedestals with applied winged mythical creatures in relief on the corners. Fully sculpted winged female figure in antique garb, holding a flaming urn in both hands. Two forked leafy arms on the handles, carrying two vase spouts. On her head a narrow pedestal with a third spout. H approx. 57, W approx. 30 cm. Circa 1800, in the style of Friedrich Bergenfeldt, St. Petersburg. The German-born bronze caster Friedrich Bergenfeldt (1760 - 1822) was active in St. Petersburg in the 1790s and, with a stopover in Paris, for the entire first decade of the 19th century. His collaboration with the ebenist Heinrich Gambs, who had trained under Roentgen and for whom he supplied artistic bronze fittings, is documented. Bergenfeldt specialized in monumental vases and candelabras, which he also supplied to the Russian court.
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Pair of candelabra with violets Fire-gilt and burnished bronze. Three-armed candelabra on angular pedestals with applied winged mythical creatures in relief on the corners. Fully sculpted winged female figure in antique garb, holding a flaming urn in both hands. Two forked leafy arms on the handles, carrying two vase spouts. On her head a narrow pedestal with a third spout. H approx. 57, W approx. 30 cm. Circa 1800, in the style of Friedrich Bergenfeldt, St. Petersburg. The German-born bronze caster Friedrich Bergenfeldt (1760 - 1822) was active in St. Petersburg in the 1790s and, with a stopover in Paris, for the entire first decade of the 19th century. His collaboration with the ebenist Heinrich Gambs, who had trained under Roentgen and for whom he supplied artistic bronze fittings, is documented. Bergenfeldt specialized in monumental vases and candelabras, which he also supplied to the Russian court.
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