A PAIR OF ORMOLU THREE BRANCH WALL-LIGHT 'APPLIQUES'

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU THREE BRANCH WALL-LIGHT 'APPLIQUES'

Each with ribbon-tied backplate cast with military trophies, issuing three scrolling acanthus cast branches terminating in dished and gadrooned drip-pan and gadrooned spool-shaped nozzle, fiited for electricity
41in. (104cm.) high (2)

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The foliate candlebranches spring from triumphal trophies, with laurel and oak-wreathed weapons suspended from bow-knotted ribbons, in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner promoted by Jean-Charles Delafosse's 1768 and 1771 editions of Nouvelle iconologie historique.

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