A VERY LARGE PAIR OF MID19TH CENTURY GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE FIGURAL CANDELABRA CIRCA 1860 AFTER THE 18TH CENTURY DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-LOUIS PRIEUR (1732-1795) each modelled as a pair of putti on a naturalistic base, holding aloft the candelabra with foliate stems issuing eight lights, the acanthus wrapped branches terminating in drip pans cast with C scrolls and shells, the candle nozzles with guilloche and shell decoration, raised on spreading ormolu plinths with guilloche borders and shells, 88cm high (2) Provenance: Prestigious Middle Eastern Private Collection. These large and impressive candelabra are unsigned but must surely have been produced in one of the prestigious Parisian workshops of the day such as those of Ferdinand Barbedienne, Henri Picard or Maison Marnyhac. The sumptuous design is based on a gilt bronze model attributed to the sculpteur-bronzier Jean-Louis Prieur (c.1732-1795), now in the Wallace Collection, London (P.Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture III, London, 1996, p. 1219, pl. 239). Prieur is known to have collaborated with the celebrated bronzier Philippe Caffiéri (1714-1774) in the manufacture of clocks, firedogs and wall-lights commissioned by the King of Poland in 1764.