Pair Of Double Candlesticks In Mercury Gilt Bronze, Marble Base, Louis XVI Style, Early 19th Century

Very beautiful pair of double candlesticks in gilded bronze with mercury, very early 19th century, Louis XVI style. On a base in veined marble Empire green, with rich bronze decoration. marble with projections in the corners finished with beautiful chiseled feet, on bronze flange surmounted by a central tulip body and accompanied by beautiful arms in scrolls with chiseled, aerial ornate complications, flanges decorated with a beautiful worked border, bobêches worked with garlands with falls, removable pearl flanges, the plumes at the top decorated like the lateral falls of the arm falls, the central fluted body evolving and on the sides of the plume pine cones fixing the light arms; the base decorated with a pretty rosette of interlacing openwork laurel leaves resting on a bronze base bordered with the same motif, the termination of the central body with a beautiful "tapered" embellished at the base with water leaves and plumes in balance with the top of the piece, ending in a pretty elegant ornamentation