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    29 September 1999

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    • A SET OF SIX EMPIRE STYLE ORMO
    Lot 263

    A SET OF SIX EMPIRE STYLE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE WALL-LIGHTS

    20TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY ANTOINE RAVRIO

    Price realised

    USD 17,250

    Estimate

    USD 15,000 - USD 20,000

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    A SET OF SIX EMPIRE STYLE ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE WALL-LIGHTS
    20th Century, After a design by Antoine Ravrio
    Each with four upturned, reeded and acanthus-sheathed ormolu branches joined with a ring decorated with flower heads and ribbons, and attatched with foliate scrolls to a central branch with pine cone tip, the whole held aloft by a winged term sheathed below the waist with lambrequins, acanthus leaves, palmettes, scrolls, and laurel branches, above a scrolled acanthus and palmette pierced wall-plate, stamped 235/13/3, 235/1, 235/2, 235, 235/7, 235/10
    25in. (63.5cm.) high (6)

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    Lot Essay

    These wall-lights are based on a model supplied by Thomire-Duterme & Cie. after a design by Antoine Ravrio for the chteau de Fontainebleau in 1809 (see Hans Ottomeyer and Proschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1987, Vol. I, p. 356 and Jean-Pierre Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement sous le Premier Empire -- Fontainebleau Collection, pp. 140-41, figs. 112-13).

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    Saleroom Notice

    Please note that one of the drip pans from this lot was broken off during the view and will be re-soldered at Christie's expense.


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