Live Auction 1186The Collection of Professor Sir Albert Richardson, P.R.A.
A SET OF SIX FRENCH ORMOLU WALL-APPLIQUES
Lot 431

A SET OF SIX FRENCH ORMOLU WALL-APPLIQUES

EARLY 20TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-LOUIS PRIEUR

Closed19 September 2013

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A SET OF SIX FRENCH ORMOLU WALL-APPLIQUES
EARLY 20TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY JEAN-LOUIS PRIEUR
Each with pineapple-final on a tapering shaft with central mask issuing two goat's-head capped cornucopia form sconces, minor losses
25 in. (63.5 cm.) high; 13½ in. (34 cm.) wide (6)

Possibly Harry Rixson, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, where acquired on 29 August 1936, as '4 Pairs Adams Lights' (part) (£14).

Specialist note

The design of these wall-appliques is derived from the design illustrated in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p.241, fig. 4.5.4.