Live Auction 19022The Private Collection of Jayne Wrightsman
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU PHOTOPHORES
Lot 108

A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU PHOTOPHORES

PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY RENE SCHAEFER, PARIS, 20TH CENTURY

Closed14 October 2020

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU PHOTOPHORES
PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY RENE SCHAEFER, PARIS, 20TH CENTURY
Each glass shade with a leaftip base, the spreading socles with garlands and fluting
20 ¾ in. (52.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

Based on the 18th century model illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol. II, Greenwich, 1966, p. 345, no. 176 A,B.