MARK OF GUSTAVE LEROY ET COMPAGNIE, PARIS, VERS 1895

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A PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER-GILT SEVEN-LIGHT CANDELABRA
MARK OF GUSTAVE LEROY ET COMPAGNIE, PARIS, VERS 1895
In the neo-renaissance and mannerist style, each on circular base resting on four paw feet with feathered faun mask terminal flanked by berried laurel branches, the raised centred chased with griffin accole on matted ground, the baluster stem decorated with alternating panels of scalework and entrelacs applied on the lower part with lion mask and on the shoulder with fruit trophies, the foliate scrolling branches similarly applied with fruits and with spool shaped sockets chased with stylised egg-and-dart over drip-pans, with detachable liners, fully marked
24 ⁵/₈ in. (62.5 cm.) high
gross weight 416 oz. 3 dwt. (12945 gr.)

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Lot Essay

Gustave Leroy opened his workshop 68 rue de Turbigo in Paris in 1884 in partnership with Jules Piault. In 1897 the workshop was taken over by Robert Linzeler.
These imposing candelabra borrow from the decorative vocabulary of the Renaissance and Mannerism to create a defining style popular in France from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.