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A set of four gilt-bronze wall lights Louis XVI, circa 1775
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Description
- each 34cm. high; 1ft. 1¼in.
each with a tapering ribbed backplate in the form of a bacchic cherub in drapery, supporting two gadrooned candlearms with a gadrooned nozzle, terminating in a foliate finial
Catalogue Note
A variant to the current model, formerly in the Doucet Collection, Paris, is illustrated by H. Ottomeyer / P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol.II, Munich, 1986, p. 288, fig. 4.16.5.