A pair of French bronze and gilt-bronze candlesticks signed L. Kley late 19th Century

in Louis XVI style, each with a nozzle surmounted on the head of a child bust on a tapering pedestal and truncated plinth, on a circular base, the underside of one stamped BPS, the other SBP; now fitted as lamps

Some very minor tarnishing. An unusual model, in overall good condition.
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Comparative Literature:
Pierre Kjellberg, Bronzes of the 19th century, Dictionary of Sculptors, PA, 1994, p. 396.
James Mackay, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, 1977, p. 211.

Louis Kley  (1833-1911). He was born at Sens in 1833 and studied under Lequien and exhibited at the Salon from 1853 and won a silver medal at the Exposition of 1889 and many other prizes. He produced allegorical and neo-classical groups and statuettes as well as portrait busts of contemporary Frenchmen in bronze and terracotta.