Saint-Louis Arlequin Three-Light Candelabra in Dark Blue, Black and Flannel Gray

A fine pair of Louis XVI three-light candelabra, Paris, Louis XVI period, circa 1785. Measures: Height 88 cm, width 44 cm, depth 15 cm each. Base 15 cm X 15 cm. A fine pair of Louis XVI three-light candelabra in gilt bronze-mounted white marble, each having three branched stems of flowering lilies terminating in a single candle nozzle surrounded by lily petals, the stems and a ring of stiff leaves issuing from a white marble baluster-shaped vase with elongated neck and splaying rim, mounted on either side by handles of entwining serpents, the heads of the snakes resting on the vase rim, with beaded swags hanging from their jaws; beaded bands adorn the body of the vase and its foot, set on a stepped square base with leaf frieze. Literature: Hans Ottomeyer et Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, p. 259, pl. 4.7.12, illustrating one of a pair of very similar candelabra of circa 1780, with lily-wrapped candle branches issuing from a gilt bronze mounted blue Sèvres porcelain vase with very similar mounts consisting of entwined serpent handles, in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Pierre Kjellberg Objets Montés du Moyen Âge à Nos Jours, 2000, p. 168, illustrating another similar pair of candelabra with five lily branches issuing from blue Sèvres vases mounted with entwined serpent handles. Distinctive lily-spray branch candelabra firstly appeared during the late 1760s; for example, those that appear in Colinet and Fois’ Les Oeuvres de sculpture en bronze contenant girandoles, flambeaux etc, published circa 1768. Similar decorative motifs were adopted by most ciseleur-doreurs of the late Louis XVI period, including François Rémond (1747-1812) and Jean-Louis Prieur (b. circa 1725 d. after 1785). A pair of candelabra in the Wallace Collection in London (circa 1766-1770), with four branched lily-sprays supported by three putti, is tentatively attributed to Prieur (illustrated and described in Peter Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture, 1996, vol. III, pp. 1219-1222, no. 239, F138-9). Sometimes lily-spray candle branches were supported by female figures in diaphanous drapery; several such examples, dating from 1775, are in the Königliche Schloss, Warsaw, (illustrated in Ottomeyer and Pröschel, pp. 254-5, pls. 4.7.3-5). Lily branches were used in the circa 1780 design for a mantelpiece garniture by François-Joseph Bélanger (1744-1818), now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Cabinet d’Estampes, Paris (illustrated in Ottomeyer and Pröschel, p. 276, pl. 4.11.13). As in the present example, the lily sprays issue from a vase with serpentine handles. A related pair pink marble vases...

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