A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND WHITE MARBLE SCULPTURAL THREE-LIGHT CANDELABRA, LATE 18TH CENTURY, in the form of a young Dutch boy and girl, each holding up a flowerpot with a blossoming tulip, each raised on a circular white marble pedestal mounted with oak-leaf and acorn garlands, a gilt-bronze laurel-wreath encircles the base; the children, the garlands, the flower pots, the plant body as well as the open and closed flower buds were cast separately, height with base: 49 cm (19 1/4 in.)

PROVENANCE
In the family collection of the present owner since the early 20th century.

LOT NOTES
Similar versions of this popular 18th century model are found in the collections of such prominent museums as the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Louvre, Paris.

RELATED LITERATURE
Geoffrey De Bellaigue, The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks, and Gilt Bronzes II, (Fribourg, 1974), Vol. II, no. 176, p. 710-712
Alfred de Champeaux, Portefeuille des Arts Decoratifs, (Paris: 1888-1898), Vol. IV, pl. 327.