A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

Lot 80
12.12.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1345082
Lot 80 | A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
Valeur estimée
$ 30 000 – 50 000
A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
ATTRIBUTED TO PHILIPPE CAFFIERI, CIRCA 1767-1769
Each backplate cast as a laurel-crowned female term, a basket of flowers above, holding aloft a pair of cornucopia-form arms overflowing with fruit and draped with berried laurel, drilled for electricity, minor differences in the chasing
17 in. (43.5 cm.) high, 10¾ in. (27 cm.) wide




Provenance

Possibly part of a set of six wall-lights of this model supplied circa 1767-1769 to Louis III Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin and duc de Vrillière (1705-1777) for his hôtel on the rue Saint-Florentin.
His sale; Paris, 9 June 1777, lot 151,
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Monaco, 5-6 February 1978, lot 155.
Acquired from B. Fabre & Fils, Paris.
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