Lot 86
86
A SET OF EIGHT ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS, each with flaming torch backplate with swagged drapery and gadroomed and reeded base, the central anthemion issuing a scrolling foliate cast caryotid putto holding scrolling serpents who support engine-turned urn-shaped nozzles and turned drip-pans

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A SET OF EIGHT ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS, each with flaming torch backplate with swagged drapery and gadroomed and reeded base, the central anthemion issuing a scrolling foliate cast caryotid putto holding scrolling serpents who support engine-turned urn-shaped nozzles and turned drip-pans
7½in. (19cm.) wide; 18in. (45.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

These wall-lights are loosely inspired by those delivered by Thomire-Duterme et Cie for The Château de Fontainebleau in 1809 (illustrated in J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, p. 140, fig. 112).

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