Pair of Empire ormolu candlesticks

Elegant pair of gilt and chased bronze candlesticks from the Empire period.
On a circular base decorated with a frieze of foliage, flowers and a gadrooned rosette, rests a sheathed shaft adorned with a gadrooned vase, fluting and rings.
fluting and rings.
It ends in a chased Lotus leaf spigot.

Parisian work circa 1805, model attributed to Claude Galle,
in its original gilding with some wear to the socket.

Bibliography: Pendulums and bronzes entered under the First Empire, Musée
national de Fontainebleau by Jean-Pierre Samoyault.
Edition 1989 p.181, n° 163.