Lot 179: Édouard Lievre 1829-1886 A PAIR OF GILT-BRONZE AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL NINE LIGHT CANDELABRAS PARIS, CIRCA 1875, MANUFACTURED BY FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE Bronze

of flask shape, decorated to one side with dragons and to the other with an outdoor scene with cranes, each flanked with dragon head cast handles and raised on an oval base with elephant head supports, issuing nine candle nozzles, each signed F. BARBEDIENNE to the upper gilt bronze rim.

measurements heights 35 3/4 in.; widths 15 in. alternate measurements 91cm; 38cm

See Roberto Polo, Un créateur inspiré, Connaissance des Arts, p. 20 for an illustration of Lievre's signature climbing dragon mounts.

For a note on Lièvre, see the following lot.