A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Each lyre-form backplate suspended from laurel garlands and an entwined serpent, issuing a J-shaped candlearm with sunflower-form nozzle, above a pair of acanthus-cast channelled and scrolled candlearms with drip-pans cast with floral and fruiting bouquets, suspending grape-cluster garlands, with satyr and musical trophy base, replacements to swags of one wall-light electrified
27 in. (69 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A wall light of this model, originally in the small Salon of the Hôtel des Deux-Ponts in Strasbourg from 1786, and now in the Residenz, Munich, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 242, fig. 4.5.8.

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