PARIS, second half of the 18th century Pair of cast silver (950) torches, the binnacle decorated with a frieze of interlaced ovals and twisted flutes, the shaft in the form of an inverted baluster with cut sides decorated with piasters and foliage enhanced by masks of gnomes, the umbilicus adorned with a frieze of torso flutes, the curved base decorated with a frieze of pearls and interlaced ovals. Goldsmith's hallmark: Jean-Francois BALZAC. Poinçon de Décharge [boar]. Poinçon de Jurande [crowned q] for Paris in 1756. Total weight : 1.240 g. - H.: 25 cm. Without bobèches. Scratches and oxidation.