A fine pair of Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted white marble four light candelabra Paris, circa 1885

Overall very good condition. Very minor chips to marble edges. Bronzes cleaned but not re-gilded.
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Although the original model has not yet been attributed to this date, Daniel Alcouffe, discusses the Louvre example as having been gilded by Jean-François Delaporte and was delivered to the Palais-Bourbon in 1774. A number of 18th century examples are in the collections of Victoria and Albert Museum, the J. P. Getty Museum and the Pavlovsk Palace. A pair of 19^th century examples, part of the Baron Basile de Schlichting bequest in 1914 (inv. OA 6895) to the Louvre are made with white marble, which is the same medium used in the present lot.