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Lot Essay
A pair of two-light wall-lights with identically shaped back-plate and differing flower-arrangements, formerly in the collection of Baron Louis de Rothschild, Vienna, is in the Wrightsman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, vol. II, cat. 222, p. 409) and another with green-painted back-plate is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Objets montés du Moyen Âge à nos jours, Paris, 2000, p. 81.
Porcelain-mounted objects such as these wall-lights are often associated with the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux, who had a considerable stock of such items listed in the inventory taken after his death in 1758. He is known to have supplied wall-lights incorporating porcelain flowers to Madame de Pompadour for Bellevue.
Porcelain-mounted objects such as these wall-lights are often associated with the marchand-mercier Lazare Duvaux, who had a considerable stock of such items listed in the inventory taken after his death in 1758. He is known to have supplied wall-lights incorporating porcelain flowers to Madame de Pompadour for Bellevue.