Lot Essay
These candelabra are base on eighteenth century models inspired by the dessinateur Jean-Charles Delafosse. An eighteenth century pair of this model in the Jones Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P.Pröschel et.al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 187, fig. 3.9.4.