Lot 4
  • 4

A pair of Louis XVI twin-branch ormolu wall lights circa 1765

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • bronze
  • height 10 1/2 in.; width 8 1/2 in.
  • 26.5 cm; 21.5 cm

Provenance

Michel Meyer, Paris, 1985

Condition

Drilled for electricity. Ormolu with rubbing, traces of surface dirt and minor oxidation. In otherwise good overall condition.
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Catalogue Note

The same model is in the Musée Nissim de Camondo; see Nadine Gasc and Gérard Mabille, Le Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 1991, p. 15.