A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT WALL APPLIQUES

20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT WALL APPLIQUES
20TH CENTURY
Each with ribbon-tied tassel backplate applied with oak branches, deer's hoof and hunting horn-shaped candlearms, stamped P, drilled for electricity
43¼ in. (110 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

These appliques comprise festive trophies in celebration of the chase and incorporate hunting horns and oak-branches suspended by bowed ribbons. The fashion for 'cors de chasse' lights was introduced in the 1750s by the celebrated bronzier Jacques Caffiéri, and triple-branched lights of similar composition were supplied for the Petit Trianon, Versailles in 1809, by the bronzier Claude Galle.

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