Live Auction 7827The Collection of a Lady - Magnificent French Furniture, Savonnerie, Sèvres Porcelain, Silver and Chinese Works of Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 507

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU LARGE THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-CLAUDE DUPLESSIS

Closed10 December 2009

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GBP 13,750

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU LARGE THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-CLAUDE DUPLESSIS
Each boldly cast with berried acanthus and acorns
26½ in. (67 cm.) high (2)

Possibly Georges de Batz and Company, 1952.

Specialist note

A pair of very closely related three-branch wall-lights attributed to the fondeur-ciseleur Jean-Claude Duplessis, with C couronné poinçoin, is in the Wrightsman Collection at the Metrapolitan Museum, New York (ill. H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, p. 143, no. 2.11.17).