A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA IN TH...

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH CANDELABRA
IN THE MANNER OF JUSTE-AURELE MEISSONNIER, CIRCA 1745-1749
Each with a deeply scrolling C-scroll and foliate shaft with seated ho-ho bird, issuing three scrolling branches terminating in foliate and fruiting drip-pans and foliate nozzles, on an asymmetrical C-scroll base formed of two sections, each candelabrum struck with the 'C' Couronné Poinçon, re-gilt, with traces of earlier mercury gilding, the separately-cast outer section of the bases probably added in the 19th century
15 ¼ in. (39 cm.) high

Provenance
Mrs. Henry L. Blum, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8-9 November 1985, lot 257.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 May 1996, lot 348.
Property of a Private Collector; Christie's, New York, 20 October 2006, lot 690.