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Lot Essay
A pair of two branch wall-lights of this model in patinated-bronze and ormolu, from the Théodore Reinach collection, is illustrated L. Metman and J.-L. Vaudoyer, Le métal. Le bronze. Deuxième Album, du milieu du XVIII.e Siècle au milieu de XIX.e Siècle, Paris, Le Musée des Arts Décoratifs, n.d., pl. CLIX, No. 1478.
The use of camel heads reflects the fashion for the Turkish style from the late 1770's through the 1780's, best exemplified by the Boudoir Turc commissioned by the comte d'Artois in 1781 for Versailles and the cabinet Turc decorated in 1787 by Rousseau de la Rottière for Marie-Antoinette at Fontainebleau. A pair of ormolu chenets à la Turque in the form of dromedaries, in the Louvre is illustrated H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, Vol. I, p.262, fig.4.8.7.
The use of camel heads reflects the fashion for the Turkish style from the late 1770's through the 1780's, best exemplified by the Boudoir Turc commissioned by the comte d'Artois in 1781 for Versailles and the cabinet Turc decorated in 1787 by Rousseau de la Rottière for Marie-Antoinette at Fontainebleau. A pair of ormolu chenets à la Turque in the form of dromedaries, in the Louvre is illustrated H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, Vol. I, p.262, fig.4.8.7.