拍品 167
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
Afternoon Session 2.00 pm Lots 167-319
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

CIRCA 1775

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
CIRCA 1775
Each with a tapering backplate supporting a laurel-swagged urn with pineapple finial and issuing a pair of foliate-cast candlearms terminating in leaf-tip cast drip-pans and nozzles and hung with a bow-knot-tied berried laurel swag, the base with triple-lobed fruiting pendant, drilled for electricity
17 in. (43 cm.) high (2)

拍品專文

Designed in the fashionable late Louis XV goût grec fashion first introduced in the mid-1750s, these wall-lights reflect the direct influence of the designs of the celebrated architect and ornemaniste Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1791). His Nouvelle Iconologie historique... published in 1768 contains a number of drawings of related wall-lights with thick laurel-draped arms. A related pair of two-branch wall-lights with urn finial and laurel-draped arms however lacking the central bow are in the Residenz, Munich, and illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 186, pl. 3.9.1.