A PAIR OF REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
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A PAIR OF REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF REGENCE STYLE ORMOLU TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
19TH CENTURY
Each shaped backplate cast with flowers and foliage centering a putto mask issuing two scrolling acanthus-capped arms supporting drip-pans, one cast with an acanthus calyx, the other with foliate strapwork, with spool-form nozzles of slightly different height, bearing a spurious C couronnné poinçon
17in. (43cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 June 1992, lot 123 (as 18th century).

Lot Essay

These wall-lights are of identical model to the pair of Louis XV silvered wall-lights at Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. II, p.527, fig.3). Although unsigned, these latter wall-lights have been attributed to the fondeur Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (maître in 1748) on the basis of their close stylistic affinity to a signed pair of wall-lights enriched with stag heads (op.cit., Vol.1, fig.2.2.5).

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