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Lot Essay
The Filassier family was one of the great dynasties of Parisian goldsmiths active in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Michel III Filassier was admitted as a master goldsmith in 1694 and established his workshop on the rue de la Calandre. Henri Nocq in Le poinçon de Paris, Paris, 1926, vol. 2, p. 172, notes that his mark is often found on very good quality candlesticks.
This model of candlestick is in the style favoured at the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the beginning of the Régence with panels and bands of strapwork and lambrequins against a matted ground which preceded the lion masks model.
For an identical model by Antoine Filassier, Michel's son who registered his mark in 1704 sponsored by his father, dated 1719 engraved with the arms of the 5th Earl of Rosebery see Christie's, London, 22 November 2000, lot 39.
This model of candlestick is in the style favoured at the end of the reign of Louis XIV and the beginning of the Régence with panels and bands of strapwork and lambrequins against a matted ground which preceded the lion masks model.
For an identical model by Antoine Filassier, Michel's son who registered his mark in 1704 sponsored by his father, dated 1719 engraved with the arms of the 5th Earl of Rosebery see Christie's, London, 22 November 2000, lot 39.