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Estimate
6,000 - 10,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
the stem decorated with a vase filled with fruits and surmounted by a ribbon knot, the base ending in acanthus leaves and seeds, the sockets fluted; (pierced for electricity, the gilding partly refreshed)
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Haut. 55 cm, larg. 35 cm; Height 21 2/3 in, width 13 ¾ in
Coutau-Bégarie, Drouot, Paris, 25 February 2022, lot 186
These wall lights are inspired by a model attributed to Quentin-Claude Pitoin and Dambière, preserved at Versailles, and illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel et al.,Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1989, p. 231, fig. 4.1.14. Comparable models are also illustrated in E. Dumonthier, Les bronzes du Mobilier National, bronzes d’éclairage et de chauffage, Paris, 1911, plate 3, fig. 6, pp. 100–1, and S. Eriksen, Early Neoclassicism in France, London, 1974, p. 354, pl. 211.
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