A pair of English gilt-bronze wall lights both stamped Osler, after the model by Feuchère in Louis XVI style, 19th century

each with a ribbon-tied backplate in the form of a stylised fruit-filled cornucopia, supporting three scrolled candlearms hung with a fruiting and floral swag with winged cherub terms supporting a vine leaf and grape cast drip-pan and foliate cast candlenozzle on their heads, terminating in an acanthus leaf cast finial

Gilding less green and more golden and attractive than in the catalogue photograph. Very good quality casting with very minor rubbing and tarnishing to the gilt-bronze. There is a slight difference to the colour of gilding to the leaf at the base of the central candlearm of one, due to some resoldering. The swags that are hung from the sides, one of which has a resoldered hook and the other is held in place with wire and needs attention. On the other, one of the hanging swags is missing but can easily be recast. An attractive model in overall good condition.
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Comparative Literature:
D. Alcouffe, et al., Gilt-bronze in the Louvre, Dijon, 2004, p. 166, no. 85,(inv. OA 5256-5257). 

This pair of English wall lights stamped by Osler, is loosely based upon an 18th century French model by Pierre-François Feuchère, ordered in 1788 for the cabinet de toilette of Marie-Antoinette at Saint-Cloud and which are now in the Louvre and illustrated by Alcouffe, op. cit., p.166.

The firm of F & C Osler Ltd was established in Broad Street Birmingham in 1807, by Thomas Osler and the business specialised in selling drops but in time their reputation was such that their London showroom attracted such illustrious visitors as the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel and Prince Albert. They were known for their magnificent glass chandeliers and exhibited a twenty foot high crystal fountain at the 1851 Great Exhibition, in London. They sometimes stamped their gilt-bronzes `F & C Osler'.