A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

CIRCA 1785

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
Circa 1785
Each in the form of a flaming vase flanked by griffin-headed acanthus-scrolls, terminating in a flower head, above a pair of bird's legs and ribbon-tied scrolled acanthus with pendant floral and grape spray, pierced for electricity, the chains replaced
18½in. (47cm.) high (2)

來源

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 9 July 1976, lot 23.

拍品專文

The design of the branches are similar to those on two pairs of wall- lights formerly in the collection of the Earls of Rosebery, sold Sotheby's London 17 April 1964, lots 24-25, attributed to Feuchère and Forestier.

Conceived in the Etruscan style of the 1780's popularized by Bélanger and Clérisseau, with its characteristic use of eagle heads, and spiral fluting, these wall-lights relate to a pair in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (gifted by Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice), illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P.Pröschel et al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol I, Munich, 1986, p. 261., fig. 4.8.5.