A PAIR OF SWEDISH GILT-PEWTER AND GILT-LEAD MOUNTED GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT THREE-BRANCH WALL LIGHTS

THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF SWEDISH GILT-PEWTER AND GILT-LEAD MOUNTED GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT THREE-BRANCH WALL LIGHTS
Third quarter 18th Century
Each with fluted back plates surmounted by an urn finial on a square plinth issuing three candlebranches and stiff-leaf moulded drip pans and fluted nozzles with further, later cut glass drip-pans, the underside of four drip pans stamped with pewter hallmarks
35 in. (88.9 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The urn relates to that illustrated in a design by the Rome-trained architect Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain illustrated in C.-H. Watelet's Raccolta Di Vasi, 1752 (S. Eriksen, Early neo-classicism in France, London, 1974, fig. 297). A two-branch light of this pattern features in a 1769 portrait of the Marquis de Marigny executed by L.-M. Van Loo (Eriksen, op. cit., fig. 442).

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