"Pair Of Napoleon III Gilt Bronze Torches, Louis XVI Style."
Important pair of chiseled gilded bronze candlesticks. The circular bobeche underlined with a frieze of pearls, the fluted binet and barrel, decorated with laurel garland held by lion's muzzles, the gadrooned umbilicus and surrounded by a laurel garland on a square base. Louis XVI style, Napoleon III period. 
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