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Lot 819 Dα

An splendid large pair of Louis XV period ormolu wall sconces

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 60.000 € - 80.000 €
Result: 62.500 € (incl. premium)
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An splendid large pair of Louis XV period ormolu wall sconces

Fire-gilt bronze candle appliques with branches that curve round to almost form circles, designed as reed bundles entwined with oak leaves and hung with foliage and terminating in feathered drip pans and screw-mounted flower bud nozzles. The nozzles drilled for wiring which was later removed. H 79.5, W ca. 57 and 59 cm.
Paris, attributed to Jean Claude Duplessis, around 1750 - 60.

Provenance

The Bernheimer collection, Munich.

Collection of Hans Schröder, Saarbrücken, auctioned by Lempertz Cologne, auction 618 on 15th November 1986, lot 100.

Private ownership, Rhineland.

Literature

Cf. Ottomeyer/ Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen. Die Bronzearbeiten des Spätbarock und Klassizismus, Munich 1986, vol. I, illus. 2.11.12 ff, especially 2.11.17.

Similar candlesticks with parrots attributed to François Thomas Germain oder Jean Claude Duplessis are housed in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, acc.no. 2017.83.1.

A set of four similar candlesticks in the same size (but cast in 1850) auctioned by Sotheby Parke Bernet London, Mentmore Vol. I. Furniture, 18.-20. May 1977, lot 138."