Bougeoirs De Thomire, Premier Empire

LITERATURE
Olivier Lefeuel, “Percier et Fontaine” in “Connaissance des Arts”, Paris, 15th June 1954, no. 28, p. 35, illustrating a page from a set of designs by Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine for the Russian Tsar of work in the Louvre and Tuileries, showing a woman’s bedroom with a torchère, which as here has a columnar shaft terminating in similarly fashioned foliate cup and foot supported on a shaped plinth. Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, “Vergoldete Bronzen”, 1986, p. 393, pl. 5.17.11, illustrating a candelabrum of comparable design by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, signed Thomire Paris, of circa 1815 with the shaft terminated by a similarly designed foliate cup and foot. Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel, “The Percier and Biennais Albums in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris”, in the “Burlington Magazine”, March 1998, p. 197, pl. 55, illustrating a design for a candelabrum with shaft set into a cup of similar lotus leaves upon a foliate foot above a splayed base by Percier for the Empress Josèphine in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.