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Pair candlesticks Louis XVI gilded bronze garlands eighteenth flowers

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Pair of candlesticks Louis XVI gilded bronze, right sleeve, fluted barrel decorated with garlands, mounted on a round base decorated with pleats and a frieze of small flowers, eighteenth century.

These candlesticks are in good condition. They have their bobeches.

A note: the feet were pierced posteriorly, slight soiling of gilding in places, some small shocks and wear of time on bronze, see photos.

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* The candlestick or candlestick becomes in the 17th century synonymous with candlestick , and more precisely a candlestick table or fireplace with a single light. Usually arranged in pairs, the candlesticks are made of three parts made of silver, bronze or silver and which are screwed into one another: the foot, the shaft and the binet. In the 17th century , the torches have a fluted , rather short and square section, resting on a broad square base or with cut sides. Their silhouette is not very elegant but they are stable.
At the beginning of the 18th century , the candlestick took on the slender shape that became familiar to us: a baluster- shaped baluster , octagonal base slightly pyramidal, surmounted by an inverted tulip bulge. The classic torch with cut sides is manufactured until the end of the century. A society in love with refinement, however, prefers a more sought-after ornamentation: ribs twisted on the base, friezes of oves, gadroons, cartouches, agraphs and rocailles sown on the barrel and the binet, garlands of flowers; other candlesticks are decorated with love, extraordinary rock, caryatids .
Under the Empire the tronconnique on circular base and binet flared in tulip abruptly replace the silhouette in baluster, the whole is enhanced by a slight frieze palmettes. After the Restoration , the torch of silver or bronze returns to its antecedent forms. But it loses its utilitarian role and becomes simple appearing, on both sides of the chimney.

Remarkable pieces have also been made in several European countries by the greatest goldsmiths and are considered as masterpieces (for example, France: Meissonnier, Ballin, Gouel, Besnier, Roettiers, Lamerie, Lenhendrick, / Holland: Wolff, Van der Torn, Mouritz, England: Smythier, Denny, Margas, Willaume, Lowes, Liger, Nelme, Crespin, Heming, Gould, Pantin, Sprimont, Wickes, Germany: Feindt, Pepfenhauser, Speltz ).

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  • Diamètre pied 14,8 cm
  • Height 28,5 cm