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Superb pair of candlesticks Louis XIV in silvered bronze, sleeve, octagonal barrel and base, antique eighteenth century.
These candlesticks are in very good condition. They were réargentés. They have their sockets.
A note: tiny shocks, light scratches and wear of time, see pictures.
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* The candle or torch in the seventeenth century became synonymous with candlestick and more precisely candlestick table or fireplace with a single light. Usually arranged in pairs, candlesticks consist of three parts made ??of silver, bronze or silver metal that screw into each other: the foot, the barrel and binet. In the seventeenth, the torches have a fluted, rather short and square, based on a large square base or canted. Their silhouette is not very elegant but they are stable.
In the early eighteenth, the candlestick adopts slim that we became familiar: baluster was framed, slightly pyramidal octagonal base topped by 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 prefer a more sought ornamentation: twisted ribs on the base, friezes of ovals, gadroons, cartridges, staples and seed sown on the barrel and binet, garlands of flowers; others are decorated candle of Love, extraordinary rock, caryatids.
Under the Empire was tronconnique on the 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 to 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).
