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Louis style wall lights XVI in gilded bronze with two arms of light.
Ribbon ornamentation, acanthus leaves, piastres, stylized fluting
and beaded. Beautiful original matte and burnished gilding.
We offer electrification to European or American standards.
France.
XIXth century.
Signed Henri Vian around 1880. The sconces are monogrammed and numbered HV 554.
Henri Vian, famous bronze maker and founder, grandfather of Boris Vian,
specialized in the production of furnishing bronzes, vases
decorative, fireplace pieces as well as various equipment
lighting. Author of the gates of the Villa Arnaga, residence of Edmond
Rostand in Cambo-les-Bains, Henri Vian participated in the various
Universal Exhibitions of 1878, 1889 and 1900 and won a gold medal in
1889. It is at 5 rue de Thorigny in Paris, current PICASSO Museum,
that he had set up his stores. After his death in 1905, his wife
then his son Paul (father of Boris) took over the Decoration House,
until 1944, when the city of Paris bought the place to
install the School of Crafts, current headquarters of the Picasso Museum.
