A large pair of gilt-bronze five light candelabra Paris, circa 1895, possibly after a design by Léon Messagé

Overall in good condition with some tarnishing to gilt-bronze.
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Although not marked or signed by a bronzier, compare the exaggerated grand scale and voluptuous Rococo influence on the present candelabras with ones by the French sculptor Léon Messagé.  He was an independent sculptor working in Paris in the 1880s and had an unmatched talent as an inventive modernizer of the much loved Louis XV style which he so cleverly blended with contemporary art nouveau.  Compare the present lot with a Messagé drawing illustrated in Christopher Payne, Linke, p. 90, pl. 98.