Lot Essay
This set can be related to a set of six in the Salon Blanc of the Parisian hôtel of the duc de Brissac described as "trois paires de bras à enfants et carquios prisés deux cent quarante livres."
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
(Lots 133-135)
A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT APPLIQUES
Details
A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT APPLIQUES
CIRCA 1770
Each backplate cast as a winged putto drawing an arrow for his bow or, astride a demi-lune shelf issuing acanthus-cast C-shaped branches fitted with beaded drip pans cast with gulloche and fitted with foliate-cast bobêches before a classical urn hung with oak leaf swags (drilled for electricity) -21¾in. (54.5cm.) high (4)
CIRCA 1770
Each backplate cast as a winged putto drawing an arrow for his bow or, astride a demi-lune shelf issuing acanthus-cast C-shaped branches fitted with beaded drip pans cast with gulloche and fitted with foliate-cast bobêches before a classical urn hung with oak leaf swags (drilled for electricity) -21¾in. (54.5cm.) high (4)
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrighsman, sold Sotheby's London, 19 November 1982, lot 117
Literature
F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection Catalogue, 1966, vol. II, p.421, no. 233A-D
Engraved