REF NO : B77092

A Rare and Highly Unusual Pair of Gilt-Bronze Twin-Light Wall Appliques

France, Circa 1870

£24,000

A Rare and Highly Unusual Pair of Gilt-Bronze Twin-Light Wall Appliques. France, Circa 1870. Each vigourously modelled in the Louis XV high rococo...

Dimensions

Height: 61 cm (25 in)
Width: 40 cm (16 in)
Depth: 20 cm (8 in)
REF NO : B77092

Description

A Rare and Highly Unusual Pair of Gilt-Bronze Twin-Light Wall Appliques.

France, Circa 1870.

Each vigourously modelled in the Louis XV high rococo style as branches of oak leave and acorns suspended from ribbon tied drapes.

Date

Circa 1870

Origin

France

Medium

Gilt-Bronze

Provenance

Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) the Bronzina Room at Halton House, Buckinghamshire
Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)
Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)
The Trustees of Exbury House

Literature

Rothschild Archive, London, Manuscript: 000/174/C/3, Christie, Manson & Woods Probate Valuation of ‘The Estate of Alfred C. de Rothschild, Esq. C.V.O. Deceased, Halton House Tring’. 1918. Listed as ‘A pair of Louis XV ormolu wall lights, chased as oak branches with nozzles for two lights each, £80.0.0.’

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