POSSIBLY MID-18TH CENTURY BUT MORE PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

These 'branchages' wall-lights, conceived in the French picturesque/Oriental manner of the 1740's, have polychromed enamel flowers springing from golden bough stems. Amongst the wall-lights of similar pattern are: a set of four sold anonymously, Sotheby's, 25 June 1965, lot 43; a pair with five branches, sold from the collection of the Marquess of Lorne, Christie's London, 9 December 1993, lot 52; and a pair with two-branches sold from the collection of Maureen Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, Christie's London, 25 March 1999, lot 402 (£22,000). A similar model of wall-lights and a chandelier en suite, are displayed in the Schonbrun Palace in Vienna.