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Chacun sur piédouche circulaire à décor fondu de godrons, l’ombilic ciselé de cannelures et amati d’une bande crénelée, le fût balustre cannelé et rudenté, appliqué sur l’épaulement de masques de femme casquée, les branches en enroulement terminés par des plateaux-bobèches et binets à bordure godronnée, les bobèches unies postérieures, poinçons sur les fonds des flambeaux et des plateaux-bobèches, et dans les binets : charge, lettre-date (Q) et maître-orfèvre ; sur les bord extérieurs: décharge; sur les branches: maître-orfèvre; les bobèches: Minerve et orfèvre
H. 29.5 cm. (1158 in.)
2,896 gr. (93 oz. 2 dwt.)
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV SILVER THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA
PARIS, 1731, THE CANDLESTICKS WITH MARK OF JEAN MAUZIÉ AND THE BRANCHES WITH MARK OF JEAN QUIN (LEQUIN)
Each on circular gadrooned base, the raised centre chased with fluting above textured crenelated apron, the baluster stem chased and applied with flutes and on shoulder with female masks, the spool-shaped socket conforming, the scrolling branches with gadrooned drip-pans and sockets, with later detachable nozzles, marked underneath, on drip-pans and in sockets: charge, date-letter (Q) and maker's mark; on rims: decharge; on branches: maker; the nozzles with Minerve and maker


Another identical pair par Jean Mauzié also dated 1731 was sold at Christie's, Paris, 15 April 2025, lot 827.
Another pair dated 1734, with associated nozzles but unengraved, are in the Catherine D. Wentworth collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see Faith Dennis, Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver: Its Makers and its Marks, New York, 1960, no. 244, pp. 87, 168.
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Une autre paire de flambeaux d’un modèle identique également datée 1731 a été vendue chez Christie’s le 15 avril 2025, lot 827. Une paire datée 1734 est conservée dans les collections du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Bequest of Catherine D. Wentworth, 1948 ; Object Number: 48.187.41a, b, .42a, b) illustrée dans Faith Dennis, Three Centuries of French Domestic Silver: Its Makers and its Marks, New York, 1960, no. 244, pp. 87, 168.

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