OF LOUIS XVI STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

These wall lights featuring têtes de beliers or ram's heads are designed in the fashionable gôut grec of the 1760s and early 1770s. Similar wall-lights are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p.186, 3.9. A pair of this model with three branches, like the present set dating from the last quarter of the 19th century, sold Christie's, London, 1 October 2002, lot 394 (£16,730).