A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU TWO-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS

These superb wall-lights closely relate to designs by André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732) preserved in his Nouveaux desseins de meubles et ouvrages de bronze et de marqueterie inventés et gravés par André-Charles Boulle, chez Mariette, presumed to have been published around 1715. Finely cast and delicately chased, they can be attributed to the artist based on the combination of various of the elements featured in this receuil, such as the distinctive curling upper branch, which supports a drip-pan with a berried boss, and the idiosyncratic design of the campana-shaped foliate-cast nozzles.