A pair of Louis XVI ormolu and white marble three-light candelabra circa 1785

Sold Sotheby's Paris, October 27, 2001, lot 147

With some spots and traces of oxidation and surface dirt. Some branches loose. Possibly lacking bobeches. In otherwise good condition.
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With their flowering lily branches and snake-form handles, these candelabra were among the more popular models during the last quarter of the eighteenth century and were executing in porcelain, a variety of stones, patinated and gilt bronze. For an ormolu and patinated variant of this model in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol. I,  Munich, 1986, p. 259, fig. 4.7.12.