A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
Each with scrolling foliate backplate issuing scrolling foliate candlearms cast with oak leaf and acorn clusters, with pierced drip-pans and elongated nozzles spirally chased with foliage
32in.(81.5cm.) high, 19in.(48cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

Eight wall-lights of this model are at Waddesdon Manor, discussed and illustrated in G.de Bellaigue, Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, vol. II, 1974, p.786, no.214. Other pairs were sold from the collection of comte Charles de Rohan-Chabot, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 21 March 1953, lot 341, Sotheby's London, 7 July 1978, lots 69 and 70, and in these Rooms, 25 October 1991, lots 146-148.