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拍品專文
Designed in the Louis XV 'pittoresque' style popularised by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier and Nicolas Pineau, these wall-lights relate to the oeuvre of the marchand-ébéniste and sculpteur du Regent Charles Cressent (1685-1768). In the two sales of his collection in 1749 and 1757 several pairs of wall-lights with parrots can be identified and described as 'Une paire de bras a perroquet a trois branches' and 'Deux paires de bras a trois branches, avec perroquet, dores d'or moulu'.
This present pair of wall-lights has been identified by Alexandre Pradere, who attributes them to Charles Cressent, illustrated in A. Pradère, Charles Cressent, sculpteur, ébéniste du Régent, Dijon, 2003, p.207.
An identical pair, formerly in the collection of Vicomte C. Berthier and marked with the C couronné poinçon tax mark, indicating this model was already in production between March 1745 and February 1749, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 8-9 November 1985, lot 269 ($26,400 with premium). A further related pair was exhibited at the International Art Treasures Exhibition, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1962, pl. 240, no. 437.
Two related pairs of parrot wall-lights, one with two and one with three branches, were supplied to Madame Infante, Louise-Elizabeth of France, duchesse de Parma for the Palazzo di Colorno. Discussed in A. Gonzàlez-Palacios, Gli Arredi Francesi, Milan, 1995, no. 52, p.243, the Colorno wall-lights are stamped with the C couronné poinçon and were recorded in the R.le Guardaroba in the 1769 Inventory. All of the Colorno wall-lights were almost certainly amongst the thirty-four wagons of furnishings and fineries brought back to Colorno from the duchesse's second trip to Paris between September 1752 and September 1753.
The sculpteur, fondeur et ciseleur du roi Jacques Caffiéri (1678-1755) also produced a similar model. In the Inventory drawn up following his death in 1755, no.43 is described as un autre model double de bras de cheminée ancien à perroquets à deux branches, and this model was already listed in an earlier inventory of his stock in 1747.
This present pair of wall-lights has been identified by Alexandre Pradere, who attributes them to Charles Cressent, illustrated in A. Pradère, Charles Cressent, sculpteur, ébéniste du Régent, Dijon, 2003, p.207.
An identical pair, formerly in the collection of Vicomte C. Berthier and marked with the C couronné poinçon tax mark, indicating this model was already in production between March 1745 and February 1749, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 8-9 November 1985, lot 269 ($26,400 with premium). A further related pair was exhibited at the International Art Treasures Exhibition, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1962, pl. 240, no. 437.
Two related pairs of parrot wall-lights, one with two and one with three branches, were supplied to Madame Infante, Louise-Elizabeth of France, duchesse de Parma for the Palazzo di Colorno. Discussed in A. Gonzàlez-Palacios, Gli Arredi Francesi, Milan, 1995, no. 52, p.243, the Colorno wall-lights are stamped with the C couronné poinçon and were recorded in the R.le Guardaroba in the 1769 Inventory. All of the Colorno wall-lights were almost certainly amongst the thirty-four wagons of furnishings and fineries brought back to Colorno from the duchesse's second trip to Paris between September 1752 and September 1753.
The sculpteur, fondeur et ciseleur du roi Jacques Caffiéri (1678-1755) also produced a similar model. In the Inventory drawn up following his death in 1755, no.43 is described as un autre model double de bras de cheminée ancien à perroquets à deux branches, and this model was already listed in an earlier inventory of his stock in 1747.