AN ORMOLU AND TOLE PEINTE HALL LANTERN of Louis XVI style and after a design of Pierre-Philippe Thomire, 19th Century

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AN ORMOLU AND TOLE PEINTE HALL LANTERN of Louis XVI style and after a design of Pierre-Philippe Thomire, 19th Century

Of cylindrical form, the quadripartite scroll-suspension with circular corona banded with stars and swagged with rope and knotted ribbon, the body with four concave panels, one hinged, divided by triple arrow columns headed by feathers and a frieze and apron of horticultural and garden implements, with crossed trumpets cresting to each panel and with four putt0-head bosses, with later conforming four-light electrical fittment
27in (68.5cm.) diam.; 61in. (155cm.) high

Lot Essay

This lantern is an accurate copy of one that now hangs in the Petit Trianon at Versailles. It was bought from the bronzier Lafond in 1811 for the Petit Trianon, possibly without its original provenance being known. It is almost certainly the lantern supplied by Pierre-Philippe Thomire for the Queen's salon de compagnie at The Petit Trianon in 1785 and which was sold at the Revolution (see: D. Ledoux-Lebard, Versailles, Le Petit Trianon, Paris, 1989, p. 120-21, no. 1284)

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