A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu three-light wall appliques
A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu three-light wall appliques

CIRCA 1880

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A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu three-light wall appliques
Circa 1880
Each surmounted by a laurel-festooned two-handled classical urn, above a pilaster-form back-plate with central putto suspending laurel pendants, issuing acanthus-wrapped branches terminating in foliate-cast drip-pans and nozzles
20¾in. (52.8cm.) high (2)
Literature
see H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 173, for an illustration of the same model applique, unattributed and dating from circa 1765.

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