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attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire
(1751 - 1843)
Vase et paire de candelabres
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Les frères Chuzeville
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
Empire style
candelabra
vase (decorative item)
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Color #ab1239
Color #c8aca9
Color #fff4f2
Color #b17261
Color #410200
Color #6b4247
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About the artwork
Title:
Vase et paire de candelabres
Periods:
19th century
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
XIXth century
Techniques:
dorure
bronze
gilded
Inventory number:
OA6900;CD400;CD401
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
attributed to
Pierre-Philippe Thomire
Born:
1751
Dead:
1843
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Pierre-Philippe Thomire
(1751–1843) a French sculptor, was the most prominent
bronzier
, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire style furnishing bronzes (
bronzes d'ameublement
) established the highest standard in refined finish in the craft that the French called that of the
fondeur-ciseleur
, "founder-finisher". In his pre-Revolutionary training, Thomire appeared first as a
ciseleur
, in…
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