Pair Of Louis XVI Sconces

A pair of Louis XVI period chased and gilded bronze light arms, with two leafy branches holding a garland of fruit and flowers, and stemming from a fluted shaft topped by a flowery vase with twisted flutes, the shock absorber adorned with oak leaves.

Both the binet and the bobèche are carefully decorated with flowers, cables, gadroons and a frieze of flowers. The two fluted light arms are sheathed in acanthus leaves, which open harmoniously at the end of the arm and are tightened by a ring under the wick. A small laurel garland appears on the underside of the arm and around the bobèche.

Louis XVI period

Used condition

Height: 55 cm

Width: 36 cm

Depth: 20 cm.

Provenance:

Former Marguerite and Robert KAHN-SRIBER collection, 20 avenue Foch, Paris.

"French Taste" auction, Christie's Paris November 20, 2017, lot 262.

A similar pair, with the only variation of a flame instead of the flowering bouquet, at the exit of the torso-fluted vase, was in the royal collections of the Château d'Eu, and more precisely in the bedroom of Queen Marie Amélie, in 1841.

Inventory of 1841 "Chambre à coucher de sa Majesté la Reine

1558, 1 bras doré, forme ancienne surmonté d'un vase, deux lumières

1559, 1 bras idem"

Archives Nationales, 300AP1-1595

Collection galerie Perrin, place Beauvau à Paris. Book published by the gallery in 2004, and extensively illustrated, page 107 to 114

Another pair but with three branches and variants at the top of the fluted shaft, can be found in the grand salon of Champ Château de Bataille, in the collections of Jacques Garcia.

Same model at the Ministry of the Interior, Paris, place Beauvau with 4 branches.