A SET OF SIX GILTMETAL AND BLUED STEEL TWIN-BRANCH WALL LIGHTS

OF DIRECTOIRE STYLE

细节

A SET OF SIX GILTMETAL AND BLUED STEEL TWIN-BRANCH WALL LIGHTS
Of Directoire style
Each with a cylindrical tapering backplate entwined with laurel issuing a pair of reeded branches with goat-mask terminals, foliage and doves flanking a swag of fruit, the foliate nozzles with beaded drip-pans, fitted for electricity, two with repaired shafts
26 in. (66 cm.) high (6)

来源

Edward Medlicott Esq., Sacombe Park; Christie's House Sale, 11 October 1993, lot 16.

拍品专文

The design of these wall lights is inspired by a group of ormolu wall lights of the mid-1780s, usually attributed to Gouthière. However, a drawing in the Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, would suggest the hand of Louis Prieurs.
A pair of this model were moved to the Château de Fontainebleau, in 1806 (see J.-P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, no. 96).