A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU FIVE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHT 'APPLIQUES'

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU FIVE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHT 'APPLIQUES'
In the Louis XVI style, last quarter 19th Century

Each surmounted by a flame finial, above the tapering fluted stem hung with ribbon and laurel sprays, the five foliate scrolling branches each with a fluted foliate-cast nozzle and drip-pan and joined by foliate festoons, the lower part cast with foliage, berries and acorns and terminating with two tassles, the back of each variously stamped MB
18¾in. (47.6cm.) wide overall; 41in. (104.1cm.) high (2)

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The festive love-trophy wall-lights, designed in the Louis XVI 'arabesque' manner of the 1780s with two tiers of flower-festooned and acanthus-scrolled candle-branches ribbon-tied to a laurel-twined Cupid's torch.

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