PAIR OF SILVER TORCHES By Alexis Loir, Paris, 1745-1746 The curved foot moulded with a frieze of ovals and a frieze of fillets clasped with four cartouches, the umbillicus with twisted channels, the shaft with four panels of lambrequins on an amati base alternating with plain panels, the tapering chased with channels. Sticks stamped "RB With attached unstamped bobèches H. (without wicks): 20.7 cm (8 ¼ in.) Weight: 1 Kg 050 A pair of silver candlesticks, Alexis Loir, Paris, 1745-1746 A similar pair from 1761-1762 is in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.