AFTER A DESIGN BY PIERRE GOUTHIÈRE, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU FOUR BRANCH WALL APPLIQUES
After a design by Pierre Gouthière, 19th Century
Each with a tied ribbon above knotted drapery descending to an Apollo mask above a lyre, entwined with floral garlands and centered by a patera, above ribbon-tied laurel branches, the nozzles cast as laurel leaf buds, each stamped JB to the reverse
52 in. (132 cm.) high, 12in. (30.5cm.) wide, 6½in. (16.5cm.) protrusion (2)

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Lot Essay

These wall lights are based on a model made by Pierre Gouthière after wax models by François-Joseph Bélanger for the duchesse de Mazarin in 1781. The sale of her collection on 10-15 December 1781 included one such pair described as being 'par Goutthier'. A wall-light of this model but lacking the ribbon-tied upper section, which is in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p.243, fig.4.5.12. A pair of Louis XVI wall-lights of the same design were sold anonymously in these Rooms, 12 April 1984, lot 83. Copies of this design were made by both Beurdeley and Dasson in the 19th Century and the quality of these wall-lights would suggest that they are very possibly by one of them. A pair executed by Henry Dasson is illustrated Ottomeyer, Pröschel, op. cit., p.425, fig.6.3.13.

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