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

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£ 60 000
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21.09.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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Лот 44 | A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE-FRANÇOIS FEUCHÈRE, CIRCA 1790

Each with channelled tapering back-plate crested by a sphere and inset with pounced panels above a pearl-moulded volute issuing three foliate-wrapped fluted branches with drip-pans and nozzles

22 in. (56 cm.) high; 17 in. (43 cm.) wide; 10 1/2 in. (27 cm.) deep





Provenance

Almost certainly delivered by Pierre-François Feuchère in 1806 to Napoleon I and Empress Joséphine for their apartment in the château de Rambouillet.

Private collection, Paris.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 26 May 2020, lot 6.





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

E. Dumonthier, Les Bronzes d'Eclairage et de Chauffage du Mobilier National, Paris, 1912, pl. 35, no. 3.

J.-J. Gautier et B. Rondot, 'Paire de bras de lumière des appartements de Rambouillet', Le château de Versailles raconte le Mobilier national, Paris, 2011, p. 214-215.



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