pair of gilded brass table lamps with white shades on a marble table
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132 - PAIR OF LOUIS XVI-STYLE CANDELABRES Fitted with light bulbs …
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Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
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PAIR OF LOUIS XVI-STYLE CANDELABRES Fitted with light bulbs In chiselled, gilded bronze and white marble; the shaft, featuring a motif of a woman draped in the classical style holding a bouquet, with two light arms, rests on a circular white marble base; fitted with lampshades; minor imperfections H. (without lampshades): 47 cm (18 ½ in.) W.: 21 cm (8 ¼ in.) A pair of Louis XVI-style gilt-bronze and white marble two-light candelabra, fitted as lamps The figures of women draped in the antique style that adorn the shafts of our pair of candelabra are replicas of a pair from the Louis XVI period held at the Musée Cognacq-Jay (inv. J 326). A comparable pair of candelabra was once in the bedroom of Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild at the Hôtel Lambert (cf. O. Beaufils, V. Mesqui, *Sèvres: A Rothschild Passion*, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Galerie de Gobelins, 17 April–26 July 2026, p. 105, fig. 20).
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About the sale The Rothschild taste, passed down through the generations: A pied-à-terre on the Champ-de-Mars
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Auction time 09/22/2026 at 2:30 PM
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