Lot 70
70
A SET OF FOUR ORMOLU WALL-LIGHTS, each with a 'vase' backplate, the neck overflowing with foliage and fruit, the body with floral festoons, the three fluted scrolled branches with female mask terminals, the whole suspended from a ribbon-tie with oak leaf and acorn tasselled terminal (the back impressed J T), 20th century

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A SET OF FOUR ORMOLU WALL-LIGHTS, each with a 'vase' backplate, the neck overflowing with foliage and fruit, the body with floral festoons, the three fluted scrolled branches with female mask terminals, the whole suspended from a ribbon-tie with oak leaf and acorn tasselled terminal (the back impressed J T), 20th century
45in. (114.5cm.) high (4)

Lot Essay

The original model of these wall lights was made for The Petit Trianon, Versailles by Pierre-Phillippe Thomire in 1787. Three further pairs were commissioned that year from Hauré, for the Dining Room at St. Cloud. A similar but smaller pair are in the Wallace Collection.

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