A Pair of Empire Gilt Bronze Four-Branch Wall Lights Attributed to Claude Galle, 1810
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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A Pair of Empire Gilt Bronze Four-Branch Wall Lights Attributed to Claude Galle, 1810
in the form of a palmette headed arrow with Diana and lion's head masks issuing four horn-shaped scrolling arms terminating in engraved drip pans and turned nozzles; with later pierced rectangular backplates; wired for electricity; slight variation in width
height 27 1/4 in.; width 17 in. and 16 1/2 in.
69 cm; 43 cm; 42 cm
Christie's London, 6 July 2016, lot 105;
Where acquired by the current collector.
An 1815 inventory of the workshop of the bronzier Claude Galle (1759-1815) describes this model of wall lights as 'bras à flèches tête de Diane à quatre branches'. Two pairs were delivered by Claude Galle on 21 Septemeber 1806 to the château de Fontainebleau for the Grand Salon de Reception de la Secretairerie d’Etat de France (illustrated Jean-P.ierre Samoyault, Musée national de Château de Fontainebleau. Pendules et Bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris 1989, p. 141, fig.114). Two further pairs were supplied for the Dining Room of the Grand Trianon at Versailles on 23 December 1809 (one pair illustrated Hans Ottomeyer et Peter Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol.II, Munich 1986, p. 706, fig. 23).
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