A SET OF FOUR ORMOLU AND BLUED METAL TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS, in the Louis XVI style, after the model by Pierre Gouthière each with a circular-tapering blued metal black plate terminating with foliate-cast berried finial, each stamped to the back 128, 129 and GP, decorated with laurel and surmounted by a pineapple finial, the scrolled fluted arms each with a goat-head terminal and with an eagle supporting the foliate and fruiting festoon, the plain nozzles with beaded edge above conical-shaped drip-pan (chips to blueing) | Christie's

Lot 32

A SET OF FOUR ORMOLU AND BLUED METAL TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS, in the Louis XVI style, after the model by Pierre Gouthière each with a circular-tapering blued metal black plate terminating with foliate-cast berried finial, each stamped to the back 128, 129 and GP, decorated with laurel and surmounted by a pineapple finial, the scrolled fluted arms each with a goat-head terminal and with an eagle supporting the foliate and fruiting festoon, the plain nozzles with beaded edge above conical-shaped drip-pan (chips to blueing)

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A SET OF FOUR ORMOLU AND BLUED METAL TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS, in the Louis XVI style, after the model by Pierre Gouthière each with a circular-tapering blued metal black plate terminating with foliate-cast berried finial, each stamped to the back 128, 129 and GP, decorated with laurel and surmounted by a pineapple finial, the scrolled fluted arms each with a goat-head terminal and with an eagle supporting the foliate and fruiting festoon, the plain nozzles with beaded edge above conical-shaped drip-pan (chips to blueing)
25½in. (64.7cm.) high (4)

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Ottomeyer and Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen Vol I, Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich, 1986, p. 241, fig. 4.5.5.

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Ottomeyer and Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen Vol I, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich, 1986, p. 241, fig. 4.5.5.

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