A PAIR OF GERMAN ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GERMAN ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
Mid-18th Century
Each with a rocaille-cast backplate with foliate boss, issuing a dragon and three scrolling foliate branches, the outer two with fruiting foliage, husk-trailing and scallop-shell ends, terminating in foliate and rocaille-cast drip-pans and conforming nozzles, one thread replaced
19 in. (48 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

These wall-lights are en suite with those sold anonymously in these Rooms, 17 June 1987, lot 3, as well as to the pair sold in the Patin Collection at Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1 November 1986, lot 50. Closely related pairs include that in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, 2.11.3, p.138 and the pair sold by Rex Beaumont Esq. in these Rooms, 30 November 1967, lot 24.

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