candlesticks Pair of Louis XVI gilt bronze candlesticks torches eighteenth century
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Pair of candlesticks Louis XVI gilt bronze, right sleeve, tapered and fluted barrel, mounted on a round base decorated with pleated and carved with a stylized vegetal frieze, antique eighteenth centuries.
These candlesticks are in good condition.
A note: some accidents and slots including feet (cf red fèches), some wear and dirt on the gilding, a candle is slightly bent (see last photo), some cabossures and strain on the feet, wear time, see Photos (red arrows).
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* The candle or torch becomes the seventeenth century synonymous with chandelier and specifically candlestick table or fireplace to a single light. Usually arranged in pairs, candlesticks are composed of three parts made ??of silver, bronze or silver metal and that screw into each other: the foot, the drum and the 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 with a bulge in the inverted tulip. The classic torch to cut sections is made until the end of the century. A refinement of loving society, however, preferred 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 the tronconnique on circular base and binet flared tulip replace brutally silhouette baluster, the whole is enhanced with a slight frieze of palm leaves. 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 leading goldsmiths and make figure of 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).