LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with ribbon-tied fruiting amphora back plate mounted with fruit and flower hung maidons with masks issuing reeded scrolled branches with spirally-fluted drip-pans, with oak-leaf and acanthus finial, fitted for electricity, numbered throughout
42 in. (107 cm.) high; 25¼ in. (64 cm.) wide. (2)

Exhibited

On loan to Mottismont Abbey, Hampshire, until February 2006.

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Lot Essay

These impressive wall-lights are the replicas of the appliques delivered by the bronzier Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843) in 1787 for the Château de Saint-Cloud. A pair of the original wall-lights is now in the Petit Trianon in Versailles (illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 291) and another pair is in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu.
This model was very fashionable not only in the late 18th Century but also in the 19th Century; the celebrated Beurdeley company is know to have produced wall-lights of this type.

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