Live Auction 1578A Townhouse off Grosvenor Square: The Collection of Dr. Peter D. Sommer
A FRENCH GILT SIX-LIGHT LAMPE DE BUREAU
Lot 139

A FRENCH GILT SIX-LIGHT LAMPE DE BUREAU

MARK OF ODIOT, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY OLIVIER GAUBE

Closed4 December 2014

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A FRENCH GILT SIX-LIGHT LAMPE DE BUREAU
MARK OF ODIOT, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY OLIVIER GAUBE
In the Empire style, on triform base with dolphin feet and anthemion border, the stem terminating in six branches, each applied with a putto musician, the adjustable ormolu shade applied with a band of bacchic putti on a mattted ground and with detachable bacchic putto finial, the adjusting arm with silver-gilt lyre finial, marked underneath, on stem, sockets, and finials, the base further stamped '3961'
37 ¾ in. (96 cm.) high

The gift of Sir Elton John to John Reid.
The John Reid Collection; sold Christie's, London, 17-18 December, 1998, lot 29.

Specialist note

A silver lamp similar to the present example is illustrated in J.-M. Pinçon & O. Gaube du Gers, Odiot l'Orfévre 3 Siécles d'Histoire d'Art & de Créations, Paris, 1990, p. 200, fig. 311. A closely related lamp was formerly in the collection of Laetitia Bonaparte (H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 363, fig. 5.12.4).