Lot 65
65
A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT WALL APPLIQUES
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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT WALL APPLIQUES

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF RESTAURATION ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT WALL APPLIQUES
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with scrolled voluted backplates, supporting a lotus leaf clasped orb with a swan motif, issuing five S-scrolled foliate cast branches with engine-turned drip-pans, one stamped '20', brass inventory tags '8/583' and '8/584'
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high; 13¾ in. (35 cm.) deep (2)
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Lot Essay

This elaborate model relates to a simpler version, without the crowning swan, supplied to Fontainebleau in 1810. They were delivered by Thomire-Duterme et Cie. for the 'premier salon des appartements de prince...' (see J.P. Samoyault, Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau: Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, vol. I, p. 148).

An identical pair of wall-lights was sold from an anonymous private collection at Christie's New York, 16 April 2002, lot 131 ($11,950).

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