A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

Lot 411
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 69 300
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Lot 411 | A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
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$ 15 000 – 20 000
A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

CIRCA 1880

In the Louis XV style, the back-plate in the form of ribbon-tied drapery terminating in tassels and centered by a green and white porcelain elephant's head plaque after the Sevres model, issuing three arms modelled as oak branches supporting oak-leaf nozzles, one plaque painted with '5' and faint black crossed swords, the other plaque with shipping label from Wingate & Johnston, Paris, one back-plate with label 'P48 474', restorations to the porcelain

22 in. (56 cm.) high, 13 in. (33 cm.) wide





Provenance

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 305 a & b).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany (no. 42/3).

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

By descent to the present owners.
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