Lot 35
35
A SET OF EIGHT FRENCH ORMOLU AND BRONZE EIGHT-LIGHT WALL-LIGHTS, each with flaming finial and stiff-leaf and waisted central stem flanked by stiff-leaf and reeded scrolling branches with gadrooned drip-pans and turned reeded nozzles supported by a winged putti resting upon a husk-enriched scrolled acanthus base and dished patera backplate, 19th Century, restorations

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A SET OF EIGHT FRENCH ORMOLU AND BRONZE EIGHT-LIGHT WALL-LIGHTS, each with flaming finial and stiff-leaf and waisted central stem flanked by stiff-leaf and reeded scrolling branches with gadrooned drip-pans and turned reeded nozzles supported by a winged putti resting upon a husk-enriched scrolled acanthus base and dished patera backplate, 19th Century, restorations
18in. (46cm.) wide; 29in. (74cm.) high; 18in. (46cm.) deep (8)

Lot Essay

The bronze caryatid Cupid, emerging from an acanthus-wrapped bracket and supporting a basket with a flaming candelabrum surrounded by cornucopia-scrolled candlebranches, is designed in the antique manner popularised by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's, Receuil de Decorations-Interieures, 1801. Its pattern relates to wall-lights supplied by Messrs. Thomire-Duterme et Cie. to Fontainebleau in 1809 (see J-P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement, Fontainebleau Catalogue Paris 1989, no. 12.)

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