A Pair of French gilt-bronze three-light candelabra circa 1900

each candelabra molded as three caryatids issuing three scrolled acathus candlearms and surmounted by a fruiting basket and raised on a circular black marble base on three feet.  Fitted as lamps.

Overall good condition; the gilt bronze with rubbing and wear in places and with traces of dirt and tarnishing consistent with age and use; the lamp fixtures with replaced sockets; one gilt-bronze finial clean; the marble bases each with minor chips to the edges; one rosette to one base lacking.
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