Live Auction 8722The Brian Juhos Collection From a Domaine in Southern France
A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI-STYLE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-APPLIQUES
Lot 317

A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI-STYLE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-APPLIQUES

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Closed1 May 2013

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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI-STYLE ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-APPLIQUES
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with ribbon-tied tassel backplate applied with oak branches and centred by a ram's hoof issuing three hunting-horn branches with drip-pans, drilled for electricity
38½ in. (98 cm.) high (4)

Specialist note

These appliques comprise festive trophies in celebration of the chase and incorporate hunting horns and oak-branches suspended by bowed ribbons. The fashion for 'cors de chasse' lights was introduced in the 1750s by the celebrated bronzier Jacques Caffieri, and triple-branched lights of similar composition were supplied for the Petit Trianon, Versailles in 1809, by the bronzier Claude Galle.