The Louis XVI candlestick is neoclassicism at dining height: a fluted column tapering downward like an inverted torch, dressed in the vocabulary of the style — acanthus, beading, laurel — and made in pairs, because candlelight in a French interior was always symmetrical. Pairs like this lit dinner tables and mantels for generations, which is why the good ones survive polished nearly white with handling.
This pair is French, in the Louis XVI style, attributed to nineteenth-century work: each with an urn-form nozzle under a leafy drip pan, the socket chased with a band of flowers, a beaded knop above the tapering fluted column, and a domed circular foot rimmed with a running frieze of stiff leaves. Look closely at the chasing between the flutes and around the socket — the cutting is fine and deliberate, each leaf-edge picked out by hand after casting, the quality of finish that separates careful nineteenth-century work from the softer castings that came later. The pair has been repolished to a bright, even surface, and one candlestick is pierced through — the small hole made when it once served as a lamp, a common conversion honestly carried.
The brightness is even across both sticks, with small deformations to the edge of one base from old knocks, stated plainly and shown in the photographs. Whoever dined by this pair before you kept them polished and kept them together. They are ready for a dining table, a mantel, or a console.
The pair weighs nearly a kilogram in gilt metal, repolished and ready to use with standard candles. It arrives professionally packed and fully insured — we handle the paperwork and worldwide shipping, with all import duties paid by us, so there is nothing to settle on delivery. Returns are accepted within 30 days.
DETAILS:
Each: Height 19.5 cm (7.7 in) · Foot diameter 9 cm (3.5 in) — roughly the height of a coffee mug and saucer
Weight of pair: 938 g (2.1 lb)
Gilt metal, chased decoration; repolished · Sold as a pair
One candlestick pierced from a past lamp conversion; small deformations to one base edge
Condition: very good condition; bright even surface, small base deformations from old knocks (see photos)
