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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT APPLIQUES
19TH CENTURY
Each with bold pierced foliate-cast sinuous backplate issuing similarly cast entwined candlebranches fitted with acanthus-cast bobêches and drip-pans - 42in. (107cm.) high
PROVENANCE
By repute, the duc de Choiseuil-Praslin, Chateau de Chanteloup Comte Philippe de La Rochefoucauld, Chateau de Beaumont, Marne, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16-17 May 1952, lots 347, 348 (four only)
LITERATURE
A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, Handbook, 1986, p. 62, no. 138
Eight wall-lights of this model are at Waddesdon Manor, discussed and illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, vol. II, 1974, p. 786, no. 214, and a further pair were sold at Parke- Bernet Galleries, New York, 20-21 March 1953, lot 341. (2)
19TH CENTURY
Each with bold pierced foliate-cast sinuous backplate issuing similarly cast entwined candlebranches fitted with acanthus-cast bobêches and drip-pans - 42in. (107cm.) high
PROVENANCE
By repute, the duc de Choiseuil-Praslin, Chateau de Chanteloup Comte Philippe de La Rochefoucauld, Chateau de Beaumont, Marne, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 16-17 May 1952, lots 347, 348 (four only)
LITERATURE
A. Sassoon and G. Wilson, Handbook, 1986, p. 62, no. 138
Eight wall-lights of this model are at Waddesdon Manor, discussed and illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, vol. II, 1974, p. 786, no. 214, and a further pair were sold at Parke- Bernet Galleries, New York, 20-21 March 1953, lot 341. (2)