LARGE Pair of three-light CANDELABRES in chased and gilt bronze and white Carrara marble; the bobbins supported by branches of lilies escaping from a baluster vase whose handles are formed of intertwined snakes; quadrangular base with a frieze of heart-shaped stripes and water leaves.
Louis XVI period, ca. 1785.
(Very good condition, small accidents)
H: 82 cm.
COMPARATIVE:
- Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel,
Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, p. 259, pl. 4.7.12, illustrating a similar candelabra, part of a pair made around 1780, with lily-curled light arms, in a blue porcelain Sèvres vase with gilt-bronze mounts.
- A comparable vase, with curled snake handles, is in the collection of
Jones, held at the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London.
- Pierre Kjellberg, Objets Montés du Moyen
Âge à Nos Jours, 2000, p. 168, illustrates another pair of candelabras, with five lily-shaped light arms on stems, in blue Sèvres vases, with snake handles.
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