MAKER'S MARK OF ALEXIS LOIR, PARIS, 1745

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV SILVER CANDLESTICKS
MAKER'S MARK OF ALEXIS LOIR, PARIS, 1745
On shaped circular stepped bases with dentilated and reed and trefoil bands, rising to fluted tapering and knopped stems headed by octagonal shoulders and with circular campana-shaped sockets with removable reeded and shell nozzles.
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.) high
Struck on bases, sockets and nozzles; with the charge and discharges of Antoine Leschaudel.
40oz. 10dwt. (1260gr.) (2)

Lot Essay

An identical pair of candlesticks by the same maker, also of 1745 and possibly the present examples, was formerly in the Puiforcat Collection and illustrated in Nocq, Le Poinçon de Paris, 1968, vol. III, p. 157. Loir was of the distinguished family of Parisian goldsmiths. He is recorded as early as 1733 living on the quai des Orfèvres and died before 1775.