Pair Of Louis XV Style Candelabra In Gilt Bronze With Rocaille Decor. Paris 19th Century

Radiant pair of Louis XV Style candelabra in chiseled and gilded bronze with two sconces covered with acanthus foliage. Their binets and bobèches take the shape of a blooming acanthus bud. These spring from a central stem animated by a swirling Rocaille decoration with motifs of sinuous windings, openwork volutes, crossettes decorated with flowers. This entire lighting composition with its animated silhouette unfolds from a scalloped terrace punctuated with graceful throws of flowers. Its base with curvilinear projections is festooned with clasps and undulating scrolls of acanthus leaves. On its reverse, the monogram "DH" is inscribed (for Dasson, Henri ??) Quality Parisian work from the last third of the 19th century inspired by models created in particular by Thomas Germain (1673-1748) or Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1693- 1750), goldsmiths-ornamentists, precursors in the French decorative arts of the 18th century of the Rocaille aesthetic exhuberance. Circa 1880. An attractive Rocaille model: Fluidity, gentle exuberance characterize this attractive pair of candelabras whose composition is inspired by the Rocaille aesthetic (1725-1755) of the reign of Louis come together to create decorative pieces with a playful formal dynamism. Thus, rising from a scalloped terrace scalloped on its base with volutes, leafy acanthus staples with a supple and nervous design, each candelabra presents a central shaft with sinuous bulges covered with a generous "Rocaille" foliage. Decorated with pretty country flowers, foliage, volutes, florets and acanthus crosettes unfold, curl, tangle and then stretch in an uninterrupted upward movement. From an acanthus bud "knot" spring two asymmetrical arms of light with a curvilinear profile amply chiseled with acanthus leaves adorned with elegant upturns. From their perennial foliage blooms binets and bobèches. Surrounded by an undulating corolla of grained leaves, the first release a blooming acanthus flower bud within which a candle can nicely take its place. A happy design, this radiant pair of candelabra designed in the Rocaille style as exuberant as it is charming, highly decorative pieces fashioned by the masters of the genre - Thomas Germain (1673-1748), Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (1693-1750) or even Jacques-Nicolas Rottiers (received Master Goldsmith in Paris in 1765) - constitutes a successful interpretation of this aesthetic with rich finery whose appeal continued during a 19th century very enamored of the "so distinctive, so refined taste of the beautiful Period of Louis 22 cm;- Base: 10 x10 cm. Materials: chiseled and gilded bronze. Quality Parisian work of Rocaille inspiration from the last third of the 19th century. Based on period models from the Louis XV period. Circa 1880.