A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GRAINED ARCHITECTURAL FINIALS

IN THE MANNER OF DELAFOSSE, CIRCA 1770

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GRAINED ARCHITECTURAL FINIALS
In the manner of Delafosse, circa 1770
Each with deeply carved floral bouquet issuing from an urn shaped vase, the frieze of which is decorated with oak leaves and acorns, with roundels to the sides and ends, tied with ribbons and hung with tassels, supporting floral garlands, the socles carved with laurel leaves and raised on elongated oval plinths, mounted on later shallow boards
each approximately 26½in. (67.5cm) high, 28in. (71cm.) wide, 17in. (43cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

As shown in a perspective engraving for the projected appartement for the baronne de Bezenval de Bronstadt by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier from circa 1735 (reproduced in B.G.B. Pallot, L'Art du Siège au XVIIIe Siècle en France, Tours, 1987, p. 120), such decorative urns could quite likely have been employed as overdoors when set back into a niche.

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