Lot 173
  • 173

A fine set of four Louis XVI ormolu three-light bras de lumière circa 1770

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
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Description

  • height 23 1/2 in.
  • 60 cm
each with a tapered backplate with ribbon-tied drapery above a ram's mask suspending an oak leaf garland and supporting three acanthus leaf-cast curved candle branches with leafy drip pans and campana-shaped nozzles cast with laurel leaves, berries and beading.  Pierced for electricity.

Provenance

Sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, February 23, 1986, lot 884