A PAIR OF ORMOLU WALL LIGHTS

OF LOUIS XVI STYLE

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU WALL LIGHTS
Of Louis XVI style
Each with D-shaped fluted backplate surmounted by a spirally-fluted flaming urn finial above a guilloche frieze, isssuing two acanthus-wreathed candlebranches with stiff-leaf moulded drip-pans and conforming turned nozzles
16 in. (41.9 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A closely related two-light wall light, from the Wrtembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, and attributed to Jean-Louis Prieur of circa 1770, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer P. Prschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1986, fig. 3.5.6, p. 173.

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