Pair of Gilt brass putti candlesticks

A tall pair of gilt brass candlesticks, each stem modeled as an urn with scrolling acanthus handles and cast on its body with a roundel of a winged putto head. Leaf-cast drip pans and foliate nozzles crown the stems, and the whole stands on a tripod of three scrolled rocaille feet, the shell-and-scroll vocabulary of the Rococo revival.

Candlesticks were made in pairs to flank a mantel clock or mirror, symmetry being the rule of the French interior. These carry that tradition with more sculpture than a plain column, the putti reading almost as small bronzes when the candles are lit. Late 19th to early 20th century.

13.5" x 7"

Hand sourced in France, September 2026