Set Of 3 pair of Rocaille style Wall Lights circa 1740

Description:
chiseled, gilded bronze.
This set is exceptional in number (three pairs) and in quality at the level of the most beautiful sconces of this period;
Moreover, these wall lights are the full model of a pair which is in the Louvre, dated 1740, with inventory number: OA6504-1;OA6504-2


They have three lights per movement faced in pairs, each binet is different and the carving is deep and elegant.
One binet is in the shape of an exploded pomegranate (fruit), the second in rolling leaves and the third in flowers tightly packed in foliage.

The plate is in the shape of bundles of stems and leaves carrying the naturalist arms of light which also reproduce branches bearing buds and flowers.
The binets are cast in one piece with the arms while emerging from foliage, this rich work denotes a complexity of bronze casting, it is a process that we will no longer find in the 19th century, the design in several parts ( screwed) being simpler in foundry.


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State :
the condition is exceptional, and the gilding almost perfect.
Electrification holes at the back of the binets and on the backs of the arms (invisible).

Dimensions:
32 x 10 (platinum) x 52 (height) x 40 (span) x 13 (overhang) cm.