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A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
Lot 93

A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE, CIRCA 1715-1720

Closed17 April 2024

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USD 30,000–50,000

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A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE, CIRCA 1715-1720
Each with foliate backplate trailing flowerheads and buds and issuing three entwined candle-arms molded with leafy scrolls and gadrooning, the lower bobèches cast with flowerheads and leaves below sockets cast with rosettes, the central candle-arm with a bobèche cast with petals below a leaf and gadroon-molded socket
19 ¾ in. (50 cm.) high

With Kraemer, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 20 May 2008, lot 350.

Specialist note

With their asymmetrical backplates and entwined arms, these distinguished wall lights closely relate to designs by André-Charles Boulle as illustrated in plate 8 of his Nouveaux desseins de meubles et ouvrages de bronze et de marqueterie inventé et gravés par André-Charles Boulle, engraved by Mariette. Elements of these walllights can be seen on a pair at the J. Paul Getty Museum as well as a pair at the Residenz in Munich illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen,Munich, 1986, vol. I, pp 61-2. A related pair sold anonymously, Christie's New York, 21 October 1997, lot 14. In 1729, 'neuf paires de bras de differentes grandeurs et differentes façons' were ordered from Boulle by various clients and it is possible to speculate that the offered lot as well as the other related wall lights were part of this group.