A pair of Rococo butterfly candlesticks

A pair of Louis XV large gilt bronze candlesticks
circa 1750-1755

Height: 30.5 cm. (12 in.)     Width: 16.2 cm. (6 ½ in.)

Comparative literature

An identical pair lacking their candleholders was in the Wrightsman Collection and is illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol. II, New York, 1966, p. 333, no. 164 A, B. Another pair was sold Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 18 March 1980, lot 65.