Five Louis XV silver chambersticks, Paris, Toulouse, Rennes, and possibly Grenoble, 1734-c. 1774

one with partly foliate handle engraved with arms, Reny Ciboux, Paris, 1734
one with fluted pan and short handle, Sebastien Igonet, Paris, 1752
one with shell and scroll rim, the handle engraved with arms, Antoine Damien Lagarde, Toulouse, 1768
one with shell and entrelac rim, the handle with a mask, Jean Louison, Rennes, c. 1770
and one with shaped square drip pan, Fiddle Shell handle, maker's mark only, possibly J. Meaclhié of Grenoble, c. 1774. Together with a conical extinguisher, C.F. Lautran, Paris, 1766; 6 pieces

A chamberstick of the mask-handled model, by Joseph Marie L'Hermite, Rennes, 1754-55, is illustrated by Jacques Helft, Le Poinçoin des Provinces Françaises, pl. XXXIII, fig. A.  A pair to the extinguisher is in the Metropolitan Museum, illustrated Faith Dennis, Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver, no. 211, p. 151.

most with scratches to drip pans, Toulouse example with sconce re-soldered to pan, otherwise good, Rennes example excellent quality
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