A pair of French gilt-bronze five-light wall appliques, attributed to Pierre-François and Lucien-François Feuchère, early 19th century
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A pair of French gilt-bronze five-light wall appliques, attributed to Pierre-François and Lucien-François Feuchère, early 19th century
each with a backplate in the form of a lyre entwined with berried laurel, surmounted by a ribbon-tied floral bouquets suspending a mask of Apollo backed by rays, with five scrolled candle branches cast with acanthus and berries, with spirally fluted and gadrooned nozzles, with an entwined berried laurel and foliate finial
96cm. high, 48cm. wide; 3ft. 1 3/4 in., 1ft. 6 7/8 in.
With Galerie Almas, Munich, at München Kunst- und Antiquitatenmesse, November 1968;
Acquired at the above by a private collector, Austria;
By inheritance to the present owner.
Hans Ottomeyer, Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. I, pl. 4.16.16 (ill.)
Related Literature
Inwentarz Kosztowności, Mebli i innych Ruchomości znajdujących się w Cesarskim Pałacu Łazienki. Spisany w latach 1839 i 1842 [Inventory of valuables, furniture and other movables located in the Imperial Palace of Łazienki. Written between 1839 and 1842], AGAD , Zespół 214 – Zarząd Pałaców Cesarskich, ref. 2988).
Stanisław Iskierski, Bronzy Zamku Królewskiego i Pałacu Łazienkowskiego w Warszawie / Les bronzes du Château Royal et du Palais de Łazienki à Varsovie, 1929.
Francis Watson, ‘French Furniture at Woburn Abbey: Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries’, Apollo, Vol. LXXXII, No. 46, December 1965;
T. Monnington, France in the Eighteenth Century, exh. cat., Royal Academy, London, 1968, p.148;