A set of five Louis XV style gilt-bronze three-light wall appliques, third quarter 19th century

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A set of five Louis XV style gilt-bronze three-light wall appliques, third quarter 19th century
With foliate clasped and beaded nozzles, the drip pans with fluted undersides, on reeded acanthus clasped scroll branches draped with acorn leaf swags, the tapering backplates with flambeau tripod athenienne finials, laurel swags to the borders and berried terminals, one stamped to the interior of the drip pans J L
20in. (50.8cm.) high (5)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
A wall light of the same design by Jean-Charles Delafosse, and dating from 1775, is illustrated in Ottomeyer/Pröschel Vergoldete Bronzen, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich 1986, p.187.

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