PROBABLY GERMAN AND 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE TWIN-LIGHT WALL APPLIQUES
PROBABLY GERMAN AND 18TH CENTURY
The scrolling branches and backplates cast with stylised foliate ornament, the backplates centred by a boar and deer mask respectively
22½in. (57cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

The French 'picturesque' wall-lights evoke Ovid's Metamorphoses or Loves of the Gods, and the history of the moon deity Diana as 'Diane chasseresse' or goddess of the chase. Heads of a stag and boar emerge from serpentined and ribbon-scrolled brackets that are clasped to the candle-nozzles' rustic oak branches .
A wall-light of this pattern, by the celebrated 'bronzier' Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (d.1791), is illustrated H. Ottomeyer and P. Proschel et al. Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.1, p.109, fig. 2.2.5.

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