Lot 1061
  • 1061

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT BRONZE THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA, CIRCA 1740 |

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • height 18 in.; width of base 6 1/4 in.
  • 45.5 cm; 16 cm
in the manner of Meissonnier, the candle arms removable

Provenance

Dalva Brothers, New York

Condition

In good condition. Some rubbing to gilding and wax residue in nozzles and on bases.
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Catalogue Note

The form of these candelabra is based on designs by the highly inventive and influential rococo goldsmith and architect Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1695-1750).  Born in Turin, Meissonnier emigrated to France to work in the royal Gobelins factory in 1724 and in 1726 succeeded Jean II Bérain as architect and draughtsman to the Chambre et Cabinet du Roi.  His designs for candelabra and other objects appear in the Dousieme livre des Oeuvres de J. A. Messonnier, Livre de Chandeliers de Sculpture en Argent published by Gabriel Huquier in the 1740s.
A similar candelabrum in the Munich Residenz is illustrated in Ottomeyer and Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen (Munich 1986), Vol. I, p.105 fig.2.I.9.