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Pair of Louis style sconces XVI with two sconces in gilded bronze decorated with heads of goats, parrots and mascarons. The thyrsus-shaped barrel with a gunmetal patina is decorated with a frieze of laurel leaves and is topped with a pine cone. Parrots hold a garland of flowers in their beaks.
Model executed after a drawing by Jean-Louis Prieur (1732-1795). The drawing executed around 1780 is kept in the library of the Museum of Decorative Arts.
Similar model to the Château de Fontainebleau museum and the Cleveland museum.
France.
Around 1900.
