Pink Marble CandlestickGilt Metal Urn Nozzle, Louis XVI Style — French Taste

The neoclassical candlestick is architecture in miniature: a column and an urn — the whole vocabulary of a temple — shrunk to hold one candle. In the Louis XVI taste, makers dressed these small columns in the full ornament of the style: beaded rims, collars of stamped laurel and acanthus, and little toupie feet lifting a square plinth off the table. At this scale they were made for the intimate surfaces of a house — a dressing table, a writing desk, a mantel end.

This candlestick is in the French Louis XVI taste, a rose marble column mounted in gilt metal. The urn-form nozzle sits above a foliate collar, the column rises from a gilt leaf ring, and the square marble plinth stands on four turned toupie feet with a beaded gallery between them. Look at the raised edges of the leaves and beading, where the gilding has thinned to warm metal — gilt work worn by generations of handling thins exactly on these high points, while the recesses keep their colour, a pattern uniform modern gilding never shows. It is sold as a single candlestick.

The marble is sound and richly veined, and there is a small split to the metal wall inside the candle cup, visible only when looking down into the nozzle — shown plainly in the photographs, which hide nothing of the surface. Whoever lit their candles here before you kept this piece well. It is at home on a mantel, a dressing table, or a desk.

The candlestick is solid marble and metal and needs nothing to be used tonight but a candle. It arrives professionally packed and fully insured — worldwide shipping and US import duties are included. For other destinations, local import taxes and duties may apply and are payable by the recipient. Returns are accepted within 30 days.

DETAILS:
Height: approx. 13.5 cm (5.3 in) — roughly the height of a coffee mug
Rose veined marble; gilt metal mounts
Sold as a single candlestick
Condition: good condition; gilding thinned on high points, small split inside the candle cup (see photos), marble sound

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