A PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER-PLATED SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA, CHRISTOFLE, PARIS, CIRCA 1890
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A PAIR OF FRENCH SILVER-PLATED SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA, CHRISTOFLE, PARIS, CIRCA 1890
circular bases on openwork grapevine feet and applied with wheat sheaves and two cartouches, one stem with putti holding wheat sheaf, the other with putti clutching blanket by a fire beneath bowed branches, the vine-wrapped branches centered by a flower-cluster finial
marked on bases and numbered 756045
height 26¼ in.
66.7 cm
These are listed in the Christofle Orfèvrerie Argentée Catalogue: 1883-1891, p. 137 and shown in an engraving of a table setting.