A SET OF FOUR ROYAL LOUIS XVI ORMOLU TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS Circa 1781, delivered by Claude-Jean Pitoin on 25 May 1781, the casting and chasing attributed to Louis-Gabriel Feloix In two-tone gilding, each with backplate in the form of a spirally-fluted and reeded staff wrapped with trailing grapevines and surmounted by a bifurcated thyrsus finial, the arms with cylindrical bobches wrapped with fruit, flower heads and foliage and with pearled drip-pans, drilled for electricity, the backplates originally swagged with pendant chains from the patera roundels to the pierced drip-pans 22in.(56cm.) high, 10in.(25cm.) wide (4)
A SET OF FOUR ROYAL LOUIS XVI ORMOLU TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS Circa 1781, delivered by Claude-Jean Pitoin on 25 May 1781, the casting and chasing attributed to Louis-Gabriel Feloix In two-tone gilding, each with backplate in the form of a spirally-fluted and reeded staff wrapped with trailing grapevines and surmounted by a bifurcated thyrsus finial, the arms with cylindrical bobches wrapped with fruit, flower heads and foliage and with pearled drip-pans, drilled for electricity, the backplates originally swagged with pendant chains from the patera roundels to the pierced drip-pans 22in.(56cm.) high, 10in.(25cm.) wide (4)
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