Lot Essay
The prototype of this pair by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol. I, München, 1986, p. 109, pl. 2.2.5
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19TH CENTURY, ONE POSSIBLY EARLIER
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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU TWO-LIGHT WALL-APPLIQUES
19TH CENTURY, ONE POSSIBLY EARLIER
Each with oak leaf-cast backplate issuing a deer mask and a boar mask and scrolling foliage branches
53 cm. high (2)
19TH CENTURY, ONE POSSIBLY EARLIER
Each with oak leaf-cast backplate issuing a deer mask and a boar mask and scrolling foliage branches
53 cm. high (2)
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