Rare pair candlesticks Haute Epoque gilt bronze candlesticks financial seventeenth
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Exceptional and rare pair of candlesticks Haute Epoque style "to the financial" gilt bronze bushing slightly flared rim, on fluted square section, mounted on a round base, origin certainly northern France, XVIIth century.
These candlesticks are in good condition. They are very rare in their original form.
A note: one foot was repaired a few bumps and accidents especially on the feet, view pictures with red arrows.
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The candle or torch becomes the seventeenth century synonymous with chandelier and specifically candlestick table or fireplace with a single light. Usually arranged in pairs, candlesticks consist of three parts made of silver, bronze or silver metal and that screw into each other: the foot, the drum and the candleholder. In the seventeenth, the torches have a fluted, relatively short and square, based on a large square base or canted. Their shape is not very elegant but they are stable.
In the early eighteenth century, the candlestick adopts slim that we became familiar: baluster was framed, slightly pyramidal octagonal base, topped with a bulge in the inverted tulip. The classic torch to cut sections is made until the end of the century. A refinement loving society, however, preferred a more sophisticated ornamentation twisted ribs on the base, friezes of ovals, gadroons, cartridges, staples and seed sown on the barrel and Binet, garlands of flowers; other candle holders are decorated with Amours of extraordinary rock gardens, caryatids.
Under the Empire the barrel tronconnique on circular base and Binet flared tulip replace brutally silhouette baluster, the whole is enhanced with a slight frieze of palmettes. After the Restoration, silver or bronze torch finds its antecedent forms. But it loses its utility role and becomes simple appearing on either side of the fireplace.
Remarkable pieces were also performed in several European countries by the greatest figure of goldsmiths and make masterpieces (eg France: Meissonier, Ballin, Gouel, Besnier, Roettiers of Lamerie, Lenhendrick, / Holland Wolff, Van der Torn, Mouritz, / England: Smythier, Denny, Margas Willaume, Lowes, Liger, Nelme, Crespin, Heming, Gould, Pantin, Sprimont, Wickes, / Germany: Feindt, Pepfenhauser, Speltz).