Lot Essay
Pierre Verlet cites a similar model in the Louvre, Paris, which he describes as almost certainly of royal manufacture (Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIème Siècle, 1987, p.103, fig. 120).
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A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV STYLE GILT-BRASS AND CUT-GLASS FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
Each tripartite base cast with pierced scrolling supports ending in stiff leaves and issuing sinuous candlearms and climbing branches hung with faceted prisms and stars and ending in polygonal finial, replacements
34½in. (91cm.) high (2)
Each tripartite base cast with pierced scrolling supports ending in stiff leaves and issuing sinuous candlearms and climbing branches hung with faceted prisms and stars and ending in polygonal finial, replacements
34½in. (91cm.) high (2)