"Pair Of Flambeaux Cassolette With Three Fires Forming Perfume Burner, Louis XVI Period"
A pair of cassolette candlesticks with three lights forming a perfume burner in very finely chiseled bronze and gilded with leaf. The perfume burner in the shape of a fire pot is topped with a lid made of a fluted cylindrical barrel, topped with a pine cone and surrounded at its base by a garland. It rests on 4 feet ending in goat's hooves which are fixed on a fluted shaft placed on its base, all in chiseled and gilded bronze. The lid fitted with the pine cone can be turned over to create a third fire. Goat heads mounted on the two arms of light adorn the handles on each side of the potpourri. This model of torch is very rare and the quality of the gilding and carving are exceptional. 
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