ID 1027481
Lot 56 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT WALL-LIGHTS
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-FRANCOIS FEUCHERE, CIRCA 1780
Each with ribbon above a floral pendant, the Apollo mask above a lyre, entwined with laurel garlands and centered by a patera issuing five foliate scrolling candle-branches with gadrooned nozzles and drip pans modeled as swags of vine leaves with grapes, above a spreading gadrooned socle with further laurel branches and terminating in a berry boss; fitted for electricity
38 ¼ in. (97 cm.) high
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Salon numero 2 sur la courl, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Salon numéro 2 sur la cour, (‘Deux appliques bronze dore a lyres Louis XVI- estimes la somme de cinq mille francs ‘).
| Artist: | Pierre-François Feuchère (1750-1828) |
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| 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 |
| Artist: | Pierre-François Feuchère (1750-1828) |
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| 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 |
| Address of auction |
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