Lot Essay
The Rococo style curves and scrolls of these candelabra are based on a design by Juste-Aurle Meissonnier (c. 1693-1750). Meissonnier's engraved designs for this model were first published circa 1750 in Paris (D. Nyberg, Meissonnier: An Eighteenth-Century Maverick, New York, 1969, fol. 32, no. M/74).