Pair of silver torches and two candlesticks, standing on a round base with contours and projections, the edges with moldings of oves, nets and clasps, the umbilicus with a large frieze of oves, the shaft with plain sides or chiseled with falls of culots, surmounted by the knot with lanceolate leaves and shells on an amatized background, the cylindrical tap with nets and clasps girdled with a flat net.
Engraved with a coat of arms surmounted by a count's crown.
Hallmark of Master goldsmith Guillaume LEDOUX, received in 1705.
Paris, 1737-1738.
The silver bobèches, engraved with a monogram, Paris, 1740-1741. (modified and damaged).
The torches : Height : 24,5 cm - Weight 1 430 g.
The wicks : 90 g.
For a pair of torches by Guillaume Ledoux, Paris, 1731-1732 of the same model, see sale, collection Lacoste, Tajan, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 9, 1999, lot 27.
To be compared with the pair of torches by Guillaume Ledoux, Paris, 1735- 1736, from the David-Weill collection, Palais Galliera, Paris, November 24, 1971, lot 36.
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