A large pair of French Egyptomania gilt and patinated bronze six light candelabra Paris, late 19th century, after the design by Chales Percier and the model by Pierre-Philippe Thomire

Overall in good condition and presentation. light tarnishing to gilt-bronze consistent with age.
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There is a watercolour design by Charles Percier, conserved in the Musée du Louvre (RF30630), for the support of a console table identical to the Egyptian figures of the offered candelabra, illustrated by Hans Ottomeyer / Peter Pröschel,Vergoldete Bronzen, p. 36, fig. 5.3.4. Ottomeyer and Pröschel also illustrate, fig. 5.3.3, one of a pair of candelabra in gilt and patinated bronze stamped Thomire, upon which these candelabra would appear to be based.
In the nouveau cabinet de travail in the suite of rooms on the ground floor at Pavlovsk (Pavlovsk, Palace and Park, St. Petersburg, 1976, pp. 176, 178 & 180), there is pair of candelabra of the same model.

It is most likely that the Pavlovsk candelabra were supplied circa 1800 to furnish the Mikhailovsky Castle in St. Petersburg for Czar Paul I.