Pair of gilt bronze candlesticks, Paris, Louis XVI

Pair of finely chiseled bronze torches gilded with mercury.
The radiantly decorated bases are adorned with an interlacing floral frieze.
The baluster-shaped shafts, decorated with offcuts of garlands of laurel leaves and a small frieze of interlacing, support the bobeches.

Good condition, original mercury gilding (wear).

Parisian work from the Louis XVI period around 1780.