Lot 77
  • 77

A pair of Louis XV and a pair of Louis XVI silver table candlesticks, Claude Antoine Charvet / Etienne Moreau, Paris, 1767 / 1776

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • marked on bases, inside sconces, and on nozzles
  • height approx. 10 5/8 in.
  • 27cm
the first with ovolo borders, spiral flutes below paneled triangular stems, banded sconces, the second pair similar but with square stems decorated with bellflowers below shells between cut-corners, detachable nozzles

Condition

one base on first pair wobbles slightly; the second pair one with repairs around rim underneath, wobbles slightly, the other with repairs at base of dome; nozzles slightly bent
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