Online Auction 19085Christie's Living: August Collections
FOUR ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT WALL-LIGHTS
Lot 165PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT AMERICAN COLLECTION

FOUR ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT WALL-LIGHTS

MODERN

Closed20 August 2020

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USD 3,250

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FOUR ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT WALL-LIGHTS
MODERN
Of Louis XVI style, each with central floral garland supported on a fluted column issuing three branches terminating in a flaming urn finial, drilled for electricity
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high, 16 ½ in. (42 cm.) wide

Specialist note

The design of the present lot is reminicisent of Jean-Louis Prieur whose design for a wall-light, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum (H. Ottomeyer, P. Prschel, et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, p. 172, fig. 3.5.3)

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