A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

SIGNED 'MONBRO', MID-19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
SIGNED 'MONBRO', MID-19TH CENTURY
Each with a putto with trailing floral spray supporting a pearled ovoid issuing from a foliate cap three part-fluted and foliate branches with sunflowers terminating in foliate drip-pans and nozzles, centered by a foliate stem terminating in a floral spray, variously stamped 'M' and 'MONBRO'
30½ in. (77 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Almost certainly Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829 - 1911), 23 Avenue de Marigny, Paris.
Thence by descent to his granddaughter Sybil (née) Sassoon, later Marchioness of Cholmondeley, 12 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W8. Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 6 December 1979, lot 122.

Lot Essay

A set of four wall-lights of this model but with floral sprigs instead of acorns to the top is in the Wrightman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum, New York (F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Furniture, Gilt Bronze and Mounted Porcelain, Carpets, Greenwich, 1966, vol. II, cat. 232 A - D, p. 420). A further related pair from the collection of the late Sir Cecil Beaton CBE at Reddish House, Broadchalke, Wiltshire, sold Christie's, house sale, 9 June 1980, lot 56.

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