Lot Essay
These wall-lights are identical to those almost certainly supplied to the duc de Bourbon, great-grandson of Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Cond, for the chteau de Chantilly, which were removed during the French Revolution and remain untraced. A further pair of this model is in the muse du Louvre, Paris (OA 5098) (H. Ottomeyer, P. Prschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 62, fig. 1.9.10.).