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Collection of the Rochechouart de Mortemart Family

A pair of Louis XVI gilt-bronze two-light wall appliques, circa 1775

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Description

with olive branches shaped branches, surmounted by a ribbon knot; (pierced for electricity



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Height 13 1/3 in., width 8 1/4 in. ; Haut. 34 cm, larg. 21 cm

Collection of the Rochechouart de Mortemart Family

RELATED LITERATURE:

P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, France, 1987, p. 89, ill. 94

These wall lights feature an ornamental vocabulary closely resembling the ones designed by Pierre Contant d’Ivry and supplied by Thomas Germain to the Duc d'Orléans for the Palais-Royal, now at the J. Paul Getty Museum, which also incorporate floral motifs and a ribbon-knot detail (inv. 81.DF.96). Other wall lights from the 1770s and 1780s adopted these motifs, notably the set delivered in 1777 by Quentin-Claude Pitoin to M. Amelot, Minister of the King's Household, illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, France, 1987, p. 89, ill. 94.