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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

Lot 324
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
Classic
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$ 18 900
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027721
Lot 324 | A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

AFTER A MODEL ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE GOUTHIERE, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

In the Louis XVI style, each rectangular leaftip-molded backplate depicting a winged male and female putto respectively with one arm raised, surrounded by foliate garlands of flowers including daisies, roses and bluebells, supporting a cassollette of classical design mounted with a portrait medallion of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette respectively beneath a closed crown headed by a fleur-de-lys and issuing lily and laurel-branches supporting three candle nozzles in a laurel driptray; minor losses to the garlands

24 in. (61 cm.) high, 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) wide





Provenance

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905).

Baronne Edouard de Rothschild, born Germaine Alice Halphen (1884-1975), hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 307 a & b).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany (no. 50/3-4)

Returned directly from the above to France on 17 October 1945 and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

F. Morton, 'The House of Rothschild' in Holiday, vol. 30, no. 3, September 1961, p. 37.
Artist:Pierre Gouthière (1732–1813)
Applied technique:Ormolu
Medium:Gold
Historical era:Period of Louis XVI
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Category:Wall lights
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps
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