A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

Lot 31
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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£ 80 000
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Lot 31 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
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£ 80 000 – 120 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

ATTRIBUTED TO FRANÇOIS REMOND, CIRCA 1785

The central stem wrapped with a climbing laurel trail and surmounted by a foliate-cast socle issuing an arrangement of flowers and fruit, the body with gadrooned top above a female mask flanked by satyr masks, issuing three reeded scrolling foliate branches terminating in gadrooned and foliate-wrapped drip-pans and acanthus-cast nozzles, the waisted body cast with scrolling foliate arabesque motifs, terminating in an acanthus-collared pinecone finial

19 1/2 in. (50 cm.) high; 21 in. (53 cm.) wide; 11 in. (28 cm.) deep





Provenance

Collection of the princes of Beauvau-Craon, sold Sotheby's, Monaco, 23 June 1976, lot 143; according to the saleroom notice, these sconces had come from the castle of Bellevue; "They were later acquired by an ancestor of the current owner [Prince Marc de Beauvau-Craon (1921-1982)] in whose family they have remained to this day".



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

D. Alcouffe, A. Dion-Tenenbaum and G. Mabille, The Bronze Furnishings of the Louvre, Dijon, 2004, p.164.

C. Baulez, Versailles two centuries of art history, Paris, 2002, p. 415.

P. Verlet, French gilded bronzes of the 18th century, Paris, 1987, p. 45, fig. 38.



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