CIRCA 1780

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
CIRCA 1780
Each backplate cast as acanthus suspended from a ribbon and terminating in a female mask with a floral headdress, the foliate candle arms draped with flowering garlands, the fluted nozzles headed with laurel wreaths
23 ½ in. (60 cm.) high, 26 ¾ in. (68 cm.) wide

Provenance

By repute, Roche Collection.
Acquired from Galerie Segoura, Paris.

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Lot Essay

The design of these wall-lights was influenced by the oeuvre of Jean-Charles Delafosse, leading designer and tastemaker of the goût grec from the previous decades. The oversized central volute issuing candle arms appears on a number of his designs, including one for a three-branch wall-light that features a similar distinctive volute issuing fluted candle arms wrapped in acanthus leaves; and another for a two-branch wall-light with voluted back plate and hung with garlands, see l’Oeuvre de J. Ch. Delafosse, vol. II, Cahier 26, nos. 1 and 4, respectively.

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