拍品 357
357
TWO PAIRS OF ORMOLU AND PATINATED STEEL WALL-LIGHTS
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TWO PAIRS OF ORMOLU AND PATINATED STEEL WALL-LIGHTS

20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL BY PIERRE GOUTHIERE

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TWO PAIRS OF ORMOLU AND PATINATED STEEL WALL-LIGHTS
20TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL BY PIERRE GOUTHIERE
One pair with three branches, the other pair with two branches, the backplates surmounted by fruiting finials and with masks, the branches capped by ram's masks linked by doves with fruiting swags, fitted for elecricity
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high; 12½ in. ( 32 cm.) wide (4)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

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These festive lights relate to a design, attributed to the sculpteur/foundeur Jean Louis Prieur (d.1792), which features Venus doves with pearls (rather than garlands) attending a bacchante mask. The mask is tied to a bacchic thyrsus pillar together with bacchic goats that emerge from acanthus scrolled branches to guard vine-filled cornucopiae (H. Ottomeyer, P. Präschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p.2241, fig. 4.5.4).