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Pair of silver candlesticks The shaft, shaped like a fluted …
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36
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Pair of silver candlesticks The shaft, shaped like a fluted …
See original version (French)
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
Pair of silver candlesticks
The shaft, shaped like a fluted quiver, is surmounted by a finial decorated with water leaves and acanthus leaves, and supported by a tripod base featuring ram protomes, ending in hooves. The whole rests on a stepped circular plinth highlighted by finely chiselled friezes of heart-shaped lines and water leaves.
Hallmark: first cock, 1st standard for 950-thousandths silver, 1789–1809.
Hallmark featuring a Greek woman’s head, with the number 1 in the bottom right-hand corner, for the Goldsmiths’ Guild of 1793–1798.
Hallmark featuring a front-facing elderly man’s head within an oval, with the number 85, for the ‘grosse garantie’ of Paris.
Goldsmith’s mark ‘PB’ beneath the base
One signed ‘Mellerio-Paris’ in intaglio on the base.
Dated late 18th–early 19th century.
H.: 30 cm
Weight: 1660 g.
(Partially detached and one of the candleholders has a chip)
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About the sale
Collections & Estates of Nice: Summer Sale
Auction location
Auction time
07/09/2026 at 1:00 PM
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