Provenance

Michel Meyer private collection Paris.

Literature

• Veronika Baur, Metal Candlesticks : History, Styles and Techniques, Schiffer
publishing, 1996, p. 105, n. 195 (fig.1).
• Peter Fuhring, Juste-Aurèle, Messonier: Un genio del Rococò 1695–1750, Vol. II,
Umberto Allemandi, Turin and London, 1999, p. 353, fig.80 (Fig.2).

Detail Description

A pair of rare and beautifully preserved chased ormolu candlesticks, attributed to
Juste-Aurele Meissonier, each featuring a scrolling stem and nozzle enhanced
with foliate volutes and C-scrolls, with refined
removable drip pans in the shape of a blossomed
acanthus leafs, above a circular scrolling shaped
spreading base.
France, circa 1730-40.