A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU FOUR-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU FOUR-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU FOUR-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
Each with a rectangular stepped backplate headed by a ram's head and surmounted by a crowing cockerel, above trailing husks and a leaf-wrapped boss, issuing acanthus-wrapped scrolling branches with acanthus wrapped drip-pans and fluted nozzles,one cockerel replaced, drilled for electricity
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 17 in. (44 cm.) wide; 10 in. (25 cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

This monumental pair of wall-lights, each surmounted by cockerel finial, are based on a design for a fluted and laurel-swagged wall-light with similar finial executed around 1770 by Jean-Louis Prieur (d. 1792). In 1766, Prieur collaborated with Victor Louis, producing designs for furniture, clocks, vases and wall-lights for the Royal Palace in Warsaw, which are among the finest examples of the early neo-classicism (H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 172, fig. 3.5.1). A virtually identical pair of wall-lights was sold at Sotheby's London, 10 June 1998, lot 83.

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