A Fine Gilt-Bronze and Champlevé Enamel Garniture Set

Description

A Fine Gilt-Bronze and Champlevé Enamel Garniture Set comprising a pair of candelabra and a brule parfum and cover.

The brule parfum or censor with a domed champlevé enamel lid above a gilt-bronze pierced guilloche border with rams head mounts supported by a baluster column flanked by seated putti finely cast with musical instruments on a circular base. The candelabra en suite having a pair of of putti figures supporting candlearms with circular champlevé enamel drip trays and sconces.

Champlevé enamelling, is similar to cloisonné in that the enamel is applied to discrete cells separated by metal. However, in champlevé, cells or troughs are cast into or cut away from the metal base, leaving a raised metal line between the cells which forms the outline of a design. The cells are then filled with molten or powdered glass and fired. Height of central vase: 25 cm