A PAIR OF ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
18th early 19th Century
Each with a partly draped youth holding two scrolling branches terminating in lambrequined drip-pans with pearled rims and with foliate nozzles and further removable dished drip-pans, issuing from a foliate-wrapped panelled plinth with foliate boss
15 in. (40 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

These wall-lights are identical to those almost certainly supplied to the duc de Bourbon, great-grandson of Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Cond, for the chteau de Chantilly, which were removed during the French Revolution and remain untraced. A further pair of this model is in the muse du Louvre, Paris (OA 5098) (H. Ottomeyer, P. Prschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 62, fig. 1.9.10.).

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