Pair of Sconces with an "Antique Brasero", France 1880

Chased and gilt bronze sconces, each comprising a central shaft surmounted by an « antique brasero ». Issuing three up-turned grooved candle branches joined by a foliate garland and terminating in candle rings decorated with acanthus leaves

These sconcescan be compare to a gilded bronze wall light designed around 1775 by Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1789).

(Commented and reproduced in H. Ottomeyer, and alii, Vergoldete Bronzen, T. I, Klinkhardt & Biermann, Munich, 1986, p° 187.)