It is tempting to suggest that these very rare candlesticks being of very large scale with rich mercury gilding and having female masks with their hair dressed with laurel emblematic of victory, were likely to have been made by Andre Charles Boulle for the King. 

Provenance

Hubert de Givenchy Sale Monaco 4 December 1993 Lot 38 FF2,090,000 

Literature

Colin Demetrescu “Le Style Louis XIV” page 43 Fig 30      

Measurements

Dimensions CM Inches
Width: 20 8
Depth: 20 8
Height: 38 15