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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT WALL-LIGHTS LATE 18TH CENTURY
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拍品名称：
A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT WALL-LIGHTS LATE 18TH CENTURY
拍品描述：
A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI ORMOLU THREE-LIGHT WALL-LIGHTS
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Comprising two pairs, each with a backplate cast with oak foliage surmounted by a stag's head, the antlers with fourteen points, with three scrolling twisted branches with sunflowers and terminating with nozzles, differences in size
21 in. (53.5 cm.) high; 12 ¾ in. (31 cm.) wide
18 ¼ in. (46.5 cm.) high; 10 ¾ in. (28 cm.) wide; the other pair
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 May 2018, lot 253.
Reflecting the importance of the hunt in the culture and ritual of the French court, this set of four wall-lights are identical to a pair housed in the château de Versailles, which were previously listed in the château de Fontainebleau from 1806. Although the precise provenance is unknown, this set was likely part of the same commission as the Versailles pair and was possibly ordered for one of the French royal residences frequently used for the pursuit of hunting.
The pair in the château de Versailles (inv. T525c) entered Fontainebleau in 1806, and then the Petit Trianon in 1868 where they were placed in Marie-Antoinette’s boudoir (illustrated
in situ in G. Desjardins,
Le Petit Trianon, Versailles, 1885, pl. XXI).Wall-lights with stag’s heads were already in existence during Louis the XV’s reign, and can be found on a
rocaille model by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (see Ottomeyer, H. et Pröschel, P.,
Vergoldete Bronzen, I, Munich, 1987, p. 109, fig. 2.2.5). Later in Louis XV’s reign, a similar naturalistically-chased stag was cast on a pair of chenets by Quentin-Claude Pitoin, delivered in 1772 for Madame du Barry’s
salon de Diane at Fontainebleau.
Another pair of this model is recorded, previously with Galerie Gismondi, Paris (illustrated in the 1986 catalogue); a closely related pair, undoubtedly from the same workshop and possibly
en suite with the present, although with the stag’s head to the bottom of the plate, was part of the collection of George Geffroy, sold at Palais Galliera, Paris, 2 December 1971, lot 74. A pair, with identical scrolling twisted branches and sunflowers, and a tied ribbon instead of the stag's head, was part of the collection of Prince Anatoli Niklaevich Demidoff, San Donato; sold in his sale, Florence, 1880, lot 1091 (illustrated).
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Comprising two pairs, each with a backplate cast with oak foliage surmounted by a stag's head, the antlers with fourteen points, with three scrolling twisted branches with sunflowers and terminating with nozzles, differences in size
21 in. (53.5 cm.) high; 12 ¾ in. (31 cm.) wide
18 ¼ in. (46.5 cm.) high; 10 ¾ in. (28 cm.) wide; the other pair
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 23 May 2018, lot 253.
Reflecting the importance of the hunt in the culture and ritual of the French court, this set of four wall-lights are identical to a pair housed in the château de Versailles, which were previously listed in the château de Fontainebleau from 1806. Although the precise provenance is unknown, this set was likely part of the same commission as the Versailles pair and was possibly ordered for one of the French royal residences frequently used for the pursuit of hunting.
The pair in the château de Versailles (inv. T525c) entered Fontainebleau in 1806, and then the Petit Trianon in 1868 where they were placed in Marie-Antoinette’s boudoir (illustrated
in situ in G. Desjardins,
Le Petit Trianon, Versailles, 1885, pl. XXI).Wall-lights with stag’s heads were already in existence during Louis the XV’s reign, and can be found on a
rocaille model by Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain (see Ottomeyer, H. et Pröschel, P.,
Vergoldete Bronzen, I, Munich, 1987, p. 109, fig. 2.2.5). Later in Louis XV’s reign, a similar naturalistically-chased stag was cast on a pair of chenets by Quentin-Claude Pitoin, delivered in 1772 for Madame du Barry’s
salon de Diane at Fontainebleau.
Another pair of this model is recorded, previously with Galerie Gismondi, Paris (illustrated in the 1986 catalogue); a closely related pair, undoubtedly from the same workshop and possibly
en suite with the present, although with the stag’s head to the bottom of the plate, was part of the collection of George Geffroy, sold at Palais Galliera, Paris, 2 December 1971, lot 74. A pair, with identical scrolling twisted branches and sunflowers, and a tied ribbon instead of the stag's head, was part of the collection of Prince Anatoli Niklaevich Demidoff, San Donato; sold in his sale, Florence, 1880, lot 1091 (illustrated).