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Wynn House Lot 45 A pair of carved and painted torchères, early 20th century, in the manner of Robert Adam, each with a glass shade over an urn-shaped faux reservoir, raised on three scrolling carved supports united by a platform base, 52cm wide 52cm deep 183cm high (2) £800 - 1,200 Provenance: The Music Room, Wynn House, St James’s, London. Lot 46 A set of six Italian grand tour ivory plaques, 19th century, depicting M Lepido, Caton, Cleopatra, M Anton, Bruto and Portia, each framed in three mounts containing two plaques, plaques 6 x 4cm overall 18 x 24cm (3) £800 - 1,200 Lot 47 Auguste-Maximilien Delafontaine (1813-1892), A gilt-bronze model of The Warwick Vase, late 19th century, impressed ‘Delafontaine’, with a gilt metal liner, 23cm high £800 - 1,200 The foundry was established in Paris in the late eighteenth century by Jean-Baptiste-Maximilien Delafontaine and, by 1870, is listed as being located at 10 rue de l’Université. The Delafontaine foundry produced decorative works of high quality and was one of the most renowned of all the Parisian foundries. The main competitor to the Barbedienne foundry, they cast works by some of the leading sculptors of the nineteenth century, including Antoine-Louis Bayre and Mathurin Moreau. Works by Delafontaine remain in the collection of the Louvre and other leading museums.
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Auguste-Maximilien Delafontaine, 1813-1892, was the grandson of the founder and was succeeded by his son Henri-Maximilien in 1884. The foundry closed its doors in 1905.
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