SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, AFTER THE DESIGN BY JUSTE-AURELE MEISSONNIER

The form of these candlesticks derives from a drawing by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750) which was engraved by Huquier and published in Le Livre de chandeliers de sculpture en argent, folios 31 and 32, plates 73 and 74.
Several closely related pairs of candlesticks are known and include a pair formerly in the Wrightsman Collection illustrated F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, 1966, vol. II, p. 333; and a pair in the Wallace Collection (ill. F.J.B. Watson, The Wallace Collection, Furniture, London, 1956, F. 76 and F. 77, p. 1203).