PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

These wall-lights are of the same basic model as the pair of two branch wall-lights in the Wrightsman Collection, discussed in the F.J.B Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, Vol. II, nos. 217 AB. The Wrightsman pair, displaying the same unusually assymetric bobèches, are stamped with the C Couronné poinçon for 1745-49. They were sold in the Gaignat sale in Paris in 1769, described as Quatre paires de bras de cheminée, à deux branches, dans chaques bras est un dragon sur une des branches. Ces bras sont d'un beau modele de bronze bien ciselé et doré, at which time they were illustrated in a marginal drawing of his own catalogue by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin.