A PAIR OF EMPIRE FIVE-BRANCH ORMOLU WALL LIGHTS

CIRCA 1810, POSSIBLY BY PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE OR ANDRÉ-ANTOINE RAVIRO

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE FIVE-BRANCH ORMOLU WALL LIGHTS
CIRCA 1810, POSSIBLY BY PIERRE-PHILIPPE THOMIRE OR ANDRÉ-ANTOINE RAVIRO
In the form of a winged cherub issuing from an acanthus scroll, holding aloft a vase issuing one central and four outscrolling acanthus-wrapped candlearms, with circular stiff-leaf-decorated drip-pans
24½ in. (62 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Anonymous Sale; Christie's, London, 13 June 2002, lot 123.

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Lot Essay

Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843) supplied several pairs of closely related wall-lights to the château de Fontainebleau in 1809 and 1810. These included four pairs supplied to the 'chambre de l'Empereur' and the 'grand salon de l'Impératrice' in 1809 and two pairs of a slightly different model supplied for the 'chambre à coucher des appartements de prince nos. 1 et 2' in 1810. (J.P. Samoyault, Pendules et Bronzes d'Ameublement entrés sous le Premier Empire, Paris, 1989, pp. 140-141, nos. 112-113). André-Antoine Raviro (1759-1814) executed a design for this model around 1810 and supplied further examples to the Grand Trianon at Versailles in 1813, which are illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, et al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. I, p. 356, figs. 5.10.4 and 5.10.5.

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