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Pair of candlesticks in finely chiseled gilt bronze mounted socket tulip shape on a tapered drum decorated with a frieze of palm leaves, round base with claw feet decoration and also decorated with a frieze of palm leaves, First Empire period early nineteenth century.
These candlesticks are in good condition. They have their sockets.
A note: slight shock, scratches and wear of time, see photos.
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* The candle or torch becomes the seventeenth century synonymous with chandelier and specifically candlestick table or fireplace to a single light. Usually arranged in pairs, candlesticks are composed of three parts made of silver, bronze or silver metal and that screw into each other: the foot, the drum and the 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 with a bulge in the inverted tulip. The classic torch to cut sections is made until the end of the century. A refinement of loving society, however, preferred 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 the tronconnique on circular base and binet flared tulip replace brutally silhouette baluster, the whole is enhanced with a slight frieze of palm leaves. 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 leading goldsmiths and make figure of 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).
