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Pair of candlesticks Louis XV in finely engraved bronze silver tulip shaped sleeve, even baluster decorated with acanthus leaves and stylized shells, patterns are also found on the large round base with contours, antique eighteenth century.
These candlesticks are in good condition and are of high quality. They have no sockets.
A note: some small shocks and wear, some wear on the silvering in spots, see photos.
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* The candle or torch in the seventeenth century became synonymous with candlestick and more precisely candlestick table or fireplace with a single light. Usually arranged in pairs, candlesticks consist of three parts made of silver, bronze or silver metal that screw into each other: the foot, the barrel and binet. In the seventeenth, the torches have a fluted, rather short and square, based on a large square base or canted. Their silhouette is not very elegant but they are stable.
In the early eighteenth, the candlestick adopts slim that we became familiar: baluster was framed, slightly pyramidal octagonal base topped by a bulge in the inverted tulip. The classic torch to cut sections is made until the end of the century. A refinement loving society however prefer a more sought ornamentation: twisted ribs on the base, friezes of ovals, gadroons, cartridges, staples and seed sown on the barrel and binet, garlands of flowers; others are decorated candle of Love, extraordinary rock, caryatids.
Under the Empire was tronconnique on the circular base and binet flared tulip replace brutally silhouette baluster, the whole is enhanced with a slight frieze of palmettes. After the Restoration, silver or bronze torch finds its antecedent forms. But it loses its utility role and becomes simple appearing on either side of the fireplace.
Remarkable pieces were also performed in several European countries by the greatest figure of goldsmiths and make masterpieces (eg France: Meissonier, Ballin, Gouel, Besnier, Roettiers to 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).
