PROBABLY 18TH CENTURY

The 'branchages' wall-lights, conceived in the French picturesque Oriental manner of the 1740's, have polychromed enamel flowers springing from golden bough stems, with vase nozzels of fret-trellis cartouches and petalled pans. Amongst the wall-lights of this pattern are a set of four sold anonymously, Sotheby's, 25 June 1965, lot 43 and a pair with five branches, sold from the collection of the Marquess of Lorne, in these Rooms, 9 December 1993, lot 52. A similar model of wall-lights and a chandelier ensuite, are displayed in the Schnbrunn Palace in Vienna.