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Lot Essay
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.
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.