Two Louis XV candelabra - image-1

Lot 1683 Dα

Two Louis XV candelabra

Auction 1230 - overview Cologne
17.11.2023, 17:30 - Decorative Arts - Furniture
Estimate: 10.000 € - 12.000 €

Two Louis XV candelabra

Brass and sheet copper, gilded and silver plated on the underside. Not an exact pair. Three-flame gilt brass candelabra. Drilled for (removed) electrical wiring, the nozzles amended. H c. 36 cm.
Third quarter 18th C.

Provenance

Auctioned by Artcurial Paris 28th June 2016, lot 24.

Literature

A similar silver model by the Augsburg goldsmith Salomon Dreyer, around 1759 - 61, in Seling, Die Kunst der Augsburger Goldschmiede 1529 - 1868, vol. II, Munich 1980, illus. 841.