Estimate

3.000 - 4.000

Session 3

19 December 2023

Hammer Price

Description

France
Chiselled and gilt bronze of six branches, by Henry CAHIEUX (1825-1854) and Ferdinand BARBEDIENNE (1810-1892), with chiselled decoration and Etruscan vases shaped shafts in brown patina bronze, with Classical scenes in low reliefs. Flower friezes and marble stands of chiselled and gilt bronze mounts. Claw feet.
Shafts marked: F. BARBEDIENNE Fondeur e Henry CAHIEUX
(in very good condition, exceptional quality)

Height: 80 cm

Category

Objects

Additional Information

Henry CAHIEUX (1825-1854) was the head decorator for the artistic bronze caster firm Ferdinand Barbedienne. Most of the artworks produced by the company followed the Greek style fashionable at the time. His pieces were exhibited at the 1850 and 1853 Salons, having achieved enormous success for their originality and excellent manufacture quality.
CAHIEUX dies victim of cholera in 1854, aged 29, having however achieved a last posthumous success at the Paris 1855 Universal Exhibition, where his lamps for BARBEDIENNE are awarded a Medal of Honour. The briefness of his activity, turned his works into precious testimonies of the taste and production quality in the period that was driven by his choices.