19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL LIGHTS
19TH CENTURY
Each with backplate in the form of tasselled drapery swags mounted with entwined oak branches and centrally issuing three scrolled horn-form candlearms with fluted drip-pans, each stamped 'H' to the reverse, lacking one removeable drip pan
30 in. (76 cm.) high

Provenance

with Parish-Hadley, New York.

Lot Essay

These wall lights are generally inspired by the Louis XVI model by Gallien and Bureaux, which features a ribbon-tied bow-knot backplate hung with oak leaves and three hunting-horn shaped candlearms, suspending tassels and a stag's foot. A set of Empire wall lights based on the Gallien/Bureaux model in the Salon de Compagnie at Versailles, deliverd by Galle on 23 December 1809 is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Petit Trianon, Paris, 1989, p. 98.

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