A pair of French Empire style silver-gilt six-light bouillotte lamps with ormolu shades, Odiot, Paris, 20th century

ball finials with crowned monogram AP?, applied with the Bourbon arms, base metal central rods

a few bolted-on motifs from the shades not straight, some rubbing to gilding on high spots, particularly finials, tiny dings and some spots of darkening to shades, one adjusting pin bent at the end; otherwise good, impressive
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The originals of these "flambeau de bureau" were created by Martin-Guillaume Biennais, after a design attributed to Charles Percier; they were used by Napoleon on his council tables, and an example is held by the Louvre (see Anne Dion-Tenenbaum, Orfèvrerie française du XIXe siècle: La collection du Musée du Louvre, no. 25, pp. 60-63.

The model was reprised by Odiot in the 20th century.  A single or pair of these lamps have been on the desk of the President of France in the Elysée since Charles de Gaulle.  More recently, a pair were sold in the Robert de Balkany collection, Sotheby's, Paris, September 20, 2016, lot 130, for 47,500 euros.