Large Gilt Bronze Empire Candelabra

A pair of gilt and black patinated bronze candelabra, 99 cm high. This is a unusual model with tall blackpatinated goddesses holding four arms with candleholders on their heads. The ...

A decorative pair of empire style candlesticks in gilt bronze and dark green marble. France, end of the 19th century. Nice condition.

These pair of candelabra are very unusual with the cut crystal bases. Glass was one of the most expensive materials in these times and therefore exc...

A charming pair of candlesticks. Most of the candlesticks made during this period, Louis XVl, Directoire and Empire used bronze that were either gilt or dark-patinated. These candles...

A pair of important and highly unusual candelabra from the 1780s. The bases are made of gilt bronze with inserted, glasscovered paintings on ivory. The paintings are by Piat-Joseph S...

This is an example of the very best quality of French bronzes. The casting, chiselling and gilding is top of the line. The pictures talk for themselves.   

Pair of period Empire French early 19 century gilt bronze candelabras.

This magnificent set of four antique candelabra come as a pair of pairs: one slightly larger pair and one smaller pair. They date from roughly 1805, during the period of the Napoleon...

A pair of Empire gilt and patinated bronze candelabra. Each with a winged Victorian female figure carrying a torchère on their hea...

This majestic pair of gilt and patinated bronze candelabra are designed in the Empire style, which was popularized under Napoleon I (1769-1821). The art of the Empire period (1804-1814, 1815), when Napoleon was in power, often focused on the military and on lauding Napoleon’s campaigns. In furniture and the decorative arts, Imperial Roman motifs on the theme of war became increasingly fashionable, such as classical trophies, collections of weaponry and armour taken from a defeated enemy, and laurel wreaths, which were symbols of victory. Each candelabrum features five lights, composed of scrolling, foliate patinated branches, topped by gilt drip-pans, and patinated urn-shaped capitals with gilt sconces. The patinated stems of the candelabra are decorated with gilt laurel leaf wreaths. Patinated sculptures of the Classical Roman figures Mars, the god of war, and Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and strategy in war, Stand next to the candelabra stems. They are dressed in full body armour...

Pair of 19th century gilt and patinated bronze candelabra now as lamps. Figural Baccantes holding torchieres. Empire or Charles X ...

A bronze and gilded bronze five-light candelabra, in the Napoleonic Empire style with two-bulb cluster. A Classic lamp with good patina and scale. Ex. Christies Auction...