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A FRENCH RED AND GILT-JAPANNED TOLE-PEINTE THREE-BRANCH COLZA OIL CEILING LIGHT
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A FRENCH RED AND GILT-JAPANNED TOLE-PEINTE THREE-BRANCH COLZA OIL CEILING LIGHT

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH RED AND GILT-JAPANNED TOLE-PEINTE THREE-BRANCH COLZA OIL CEILING LIGHT
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Decorated overall with foliage on a crimson ground with red card shades, decoration refreshed, adapted for electricity and with consequential replacements
19 in. (48.2 cm.) high including the hanging ring
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Lot Essay

A related 'lustre en tole vernie' was published by La Mesangère in his Recueil of 1807, and similar tôle peinte light fixtures, including Egyptian 'herm-footed' caryatid wall-lights, can also be seen in a watercolour design by the Deharne workshops, now in the Bibliothèque Marmottan, Paris (illustrated in N. de Reynies, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, vol.II, p.736 and 731).

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