A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

CIRCA 1750-55

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
CIRCA 1750-55
Each with a scrolling acanthus shaped backplate issuing three conformingly cast berried acanthus branches with upswept foliate nozzles, regilt
27½ in. (70 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Christie's, London, 2 December 1998, lot 45.

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Lot Essay

With their naturalistic scrolling acanthus branches, these wall-lights reflect the Louis XV 'pittoresque' style promoted by marchands-merciers such as Lazare Duvaux, who is known to have employed the bronzier Jean-Claude Duplessis. Three-branch wall-lights of closely related design, including one in the Wrightsman Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et.al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 143, figs. 2.11.17 and 2.11.18.

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