A set of four French ormolu and blued-steel twin-light wall-appliques

AFTER THE MODEL BY PIERRE GOUTHIÈRE, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A set of four French ormolu and blued-steel twin-light wall-appliques
After the model by Pierre Gouthière, Late 19th/Early 20th Century
Each with a tapering blued-steel support, surmounted by a pine-cone finial and hung with laurel, centred by a female mask, supporting the two scrolling spirally-fluted and foliate-cast branches, mounted by an eagle and terminating to one end with a circular turned nozzle and drip-pan and to the other with a ram's head, re-gilt
11¾in. (29.8cm.) wide; 24¾in. (63cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

The design of these wall lights is inspired by a group of ormolu wall- lights of the mid-1780s, attributed to Pierre Gouthière (See H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich 1986, Vol. 1, p.241). A set of four were sold in these rooms 17 March 1993, lot 32 and a further set of six were sold at Christie's House Sale, Sacombe Park, Hertfordshire, 11 October 1993, lot 16.

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