LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-CHARLES DELAFOSSE

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-CHARLES DELAFOSSE
Each with fluted backplate with laurel-swagged Neo-Classical urn finial and berried bosse, the rosette mounted on a breakfronted architectural cornice and above a ram's head issuing two scrolled branches swagged with oak baguettes, with acanthus-cast dished drip-pans and guilloche-case fluted nozzles, fitted for electricity
21½ in. (54.5 cm.) high; 12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) wide (2)

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Lot Essay

Conceived in the fashionable goût grec of the late 1760s, they relate to the pair of wall-lights with three branches in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (illustrated in S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, London, 1974, p. 212). Eriksen dates the model to circa 1770 on the basis of similar examples with the tête de belier supplied by the bronzier Quentin-Claude Pitoin (circa 1725-1777) to the Prince de Condé in 1771, which appear in his inventory in 1779. Philippe Caffiéri also had a model with a ram's head in his stock described in the inventory drawn up in December 1770.

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