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A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu three-light wall appliques
A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu three-light wall appliques

AFTER A DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-CHARLES DELAFOSSE, CIRCA 1880

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A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu three-light wall appliques
After a design attributed to Jean-Charles Delafosse, Circa 1880
Each with tapering volute-form backplate centred with a ram's mask, surmounted by a laurel-swagged urn-en-flambeau, issuing scrolled arms draped with oak-leaf swags, with berried terminal, electrified
25½ in. (64.8 cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

The design for the present model applique, with its tête de bélier central mount, is attributed to the celebrated architect, designer and ornémaniste, Jean-Charles Delafosse (d. 1789). For a pair of appliques supplied to the Prince Condé by bronzier, Quentin-Claude Pitoin (d. 1777), now in the Louvre, see H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel et al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 186, fig. 3.9.1.