Pair of Regency Gilt and Patinated Bronze Figural Candlesticks

Each female figure holding a torch issuing four scrolling candle arms decorated with scrolls, rosettes and acanthus leaves, raised on a circular spreading white marble plinth centere...

The standing draped female figure carrying a torch surmounted by a light locket, raised on a circular base with a laurel wreath border above a square plinth. Electrified with silk cu...

In the neoclassical taste, the open reeded spouts above ovoid bodies with leaf-clasped socles on square bases, the handles terminating in a female mask. This pair of ewers...

Each with a recumbent winged sphinx with scrolling foliate arabesques to their back, upon a bow-ended rectangular gadrooned plinth, the frieze with a panel applied with entrelacs, on fluted toupie feet. Several models of chenets with sphinx exist, dating from the 1780s. An example with winged sphinxes with headresses and with female mask centering the frieze, attributed to either Pierre Gouthière or Pierre-Philippe Thomire, exists in several versions in the Louvre, Versailles and the Cleveland Museum of Art (see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.I, p.276, fig. 4.11.14.). This model is based on a drawing by the architect François-Joseph Bélanger in the Bibliothèque Nationale, illustrated op. cit., fig. 4.11.13. Another type of sphinx chenet...

A pair of early 19th century Regency period gilt and patinated bronze candlesticks. Each has floral sprays with crystal lustres supported on gilt Ostrich shaped stems standing on cir...

In the oriental style, each candlestick depicting a servant in flowing dress holding a Greek key cast candle cup above his head, with upturned slippers standing atop globes resting o...

A wonderful large pair of French Empire gilt and patinated bronze figural Regency candelabra raised on paw feet, each figure holding a 6-branch cand...

A very fine quality pair of Regency bronze and ormolu candlesticks depicting young maidens with revealed breasts and holding their long dresses above their ancles. Each supports fine...