A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT APPLIQUES

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT APPLIQUES
CIRCA 1780

Each with ribbon-tied quiver-form backplate with leaftip and rosette-cast rim, the tapering body applied with berried laurel branches centering a ribbon-tied pair of naturalistically-cast flowering branches issuing flower-cast bobêches, each gilt in two colors of gold (drilled for electricity)--35in. (89cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
French & Co., New York

Lot Essay

This pair most closely resembles a pair with ribbon-tied quiver backplates of circa 1785 now at Fontainebleau and illustrated in J-P Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, 1989, p. 129, no. 95. The design of the quiver relates closely to the famous set of six appliques made under the direction of Jean Hauré by Forestier and gilt by Thomire for the Queen's Salon des Jeux at Compiègne in 1787 (see G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, vol. II, 1974, pp. 806-808).