Pair Of Candlesticks In Gilt Bronze Empire Period

Elegant pair of carved and gilded bronze candlesticks from the Empire period. On a circular base decorated with a frieze of foliage, flowers and gadrooned rosette, rests the shaft in sheath decorated with a vase also gadrooned, grooves and rings. It ends with a chiseled binet of lotus leaves. Parisian work circa 1805 whose model is attributed to Claude Galle, in its original gilding with some wear from use at the level of the socket. Bibliography: Pendulums and bronzes entered under the First Empire, National Museum of Fontainebleau by Jean-Pierre Samoyault. Edition 1989 p. 181, no. 163.