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A pair of late Gustavian candle stands, early 19th century.

Estimate
75 000 - 85 000 SEK
7 310 - 8 290 EUR
8 490 - 9 630 USD
Hammer price
75 000 SEK
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Purchasing info
A pair of late Gustavian candle stands, early 19th century.

Gilded and bronzed. Sculpted decoration of griffins and paw feet. On loose blackened wooden bases. Brass nozzles. Height without black bases 166, height incl. bases 175 cm.

One griffin later. Later relief gesso leaf décor on the bases. Later brass nozzles.

Literature

Håkan Groth, Nyklassicismen i Sverige, Stockholm 1994, an identical pair is found at Rosersberg palace, see page 138.

More information

In the 17th century, a furniture group was created consisting of a mirror, a table and a pair of pedestals, so-called gueridones, for candlesticks. The copper engraving by the French designer Jean Lepautre (1618-82) shows such a furniture group in sculpted wood. Up to and including the Empire in the first half of the 1800s, gueridones were manufactured. At Rosersberg Castle north of Stockholm, there are a couple of late Gustavian gueridones which are almost identical to the lot number. The late Gustavian interior of Rosersberg was made for the Swedish king Karl XIII in the early 1800s.