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CIRCA 1880
Details
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
CIRCA 1880
In the Louis XV style, the back-plate in the form of ribbon-tied drapery terminating in tassels and centered by a green and white porcelain elephant's head plaque after the Sevres model, issuing three arms modelled as oak branches supporting oak-leaf nozzles, one plaque painted with '5' and faint black crossed swords, the other plaque with shipping label from Wingate & Johnston, Paris, one back-plate with label 'P48 474', restorations to the porcelain
22 in. (56 cm.) high, 13 in. (33 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1880
In the Louis XV style, the back-plate in the form of ribbon-tied drapery terminating in tassels and centered by a green and white porcelain elephant's head plaque after the Sevres model, issuing three arms modelled as oak branches supporting oak-leaf nozzles, one plaque painted with '5' and faint black crossed swords, the other plaque with shipping label from Wingate & Johnston, Paris, one back-plate with label 'P48 474', restorations to the porcelain
22 in. (56 cm.) high, 13 in. (33 cm.) wide
Provenance
Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 305 a & b).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany (no. 42/3).
Returned directly from the above to France on 17 October 1945 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 305 a & b).
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany (no. 42/3).
Returned directly from the above to France on 17 October 1945 and restituted to the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.