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A SET OF SIX GILTMETAL AND BLUED STEEL TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS of Directoire style, each with a cylindrical tapering backplate entwined with laurel issuing a pair of reeded branches with goat-mask terminals, foliage and doves flanking a swag of fruit, the foliate nozzles with beaded drip-pans, fitted for electricity, two with repaired shafts
26in. (66cm.) high (6)
26in. (66cm.) high (6)
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The design of these wall-lights is inspired by a group of ormolu wall-lights of the mid-1780's. The design is usually attributed to Gouthière but a drawing in the Musée de arts décoratifs, Paris, seems closer to Louis Prieurs.
A pair of this model are now at Fontainebleau, having been moved there in 1806 (see: J.-P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, no. 96)
A pair of this model are now at Fontainebleau, having been moved there in 1806 (see: J.-P. Samoyault, Pendules et bronzes d'ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, no. 96)