A PAIR OF VENETIAN LE NOVE FAIENCE TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

19TH CENTURY

细节

A PAIR OF VENETIAN LE NOVE FAIENCE TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
19th Century
Each with an engraved shaped mirror plate with a Greek youth standing on a cloud within a foliate frame, the shaped and pierced outer frame decorated with sprays of flowers and surmounted by a foliate spray, to the base with a grotesque mask issuing two scrolling branches terminating in flowerhead-shaped nozzles, one mirror with cracked porcelain to the top and one candle-branch with restored break
26½ in. (67.5 cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

A pair of mirrors with nearly identical maiolica frame and also retaining the maiolica branches is illustrated in G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del Settecento, Milan, 1958, pl. CCLXIIa, while one in the Palazzo Rezzonico, Venice, with tôle peinte candle-branches is illustrated in G. Mariacher, Illuminazione in Italia dal Quattrocento all'Ottocento, Milan, 1965, opposite p. 24.

A set of four girandoles of this design, lacking the candle-branches, was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 14 December 1995, lot 104 (£ 13,800).