Live Auction 1113The Opulent Eye - 500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
A SET OF FOUR FRENCH ORMOLU FOUR-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
Lot 118

A SET OF FOUR FRENCH ORMOLU FOUR-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

Closed14 March 2013

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A SET OF FOUR FRENCH ORMOLU FOUR-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each with a putto term figure holding two scrolling branches with foliate nozzles and drip pans above a tapering base decorated with vines, fitted for electricity
26 in. (66 cm.) high (4)

Specialist note

A variation of the present model described as modèle à enfant terme is in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (ill. in P. Verlet, les Bronzes dorés français du XVIIIè siècle, p. 89, fig. 92), and a closely related pair is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (ill. F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol. III, New York, 1970, p.75, figs. 307a and b).