A pair of late 19th century French gilt bronze three light wall appliques
Perhaps in the manner of Alfred Emmanuel Beurdeley (French, 1847-1919), and in the Louis XVI transitional style
The reeded and fruiting vine and acanthus scrolling arms with stiff leaf cast spreading collars and shankered waisted urn nozzles, the drapery wrapped intertwined pendant backplates with ribbon tied crestings and tasselled terminals,
later drilled for electricity 57cm high overall (2)
Footnotes:
Similar drapery-tied backplates to the those of the offered lot were first recorded in 1756 in the form of two pairs of wall appliques designed by Pierre Contant d'Ivry and supplied by Thomas Germain in 1756 to the duc d'Orléans for the Palais-Royal. Now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, these lights are illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe Siècle, France, 1987, no. 18, p. 30.

However a perhaps more closely related multiple set of wall appliques to the offered lot with ribbon-tied cresting and reeded branches, dating to circa 1775-80, were originally supplied by Quentin-Claude Pitoin in 1777 for M. Amelot, ministre de la maison du Roi (illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés du XVIIIe Siècle, France, 1987, p. 89, ill. 94). Of this set, which consisted of at least six pairs of appliques, one pair was sold from the Collection Lehmann in Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 4-5 June 1925, lot 92; another pair was sold from the collection of Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1992, lot 38; a further pair was sold from the Alexander Collection, Christie's New York, 30 April 1999, lot 179; whilst two pairs of similar wall appliques were apparently offered by Partridges, New Bond Street in Recent Acquisitions 1996, London, no.44, p.107, one pair possibly from the same source. These appliques were also discussed in relation to a comparable set of four twin branch wall lights, parts Louis XVI, circa 1780 and parts Restauration, circa 1820 offered as lots 39 and 40, from the Estate of Wendell Cherry, Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1994, and were subsequently offered as lots 326 and 327 from the Estate of Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 3, English and European Furniture, Porcelain and Silver, Christies, 22 October, 2022, lots 326 and 327.
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