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Pair of 1st Empire period sconces in gilded bronze and brown patina with four arms of light. The sheath-shaped shaft represents a winged woman resting on a globe and holding the branches of light with her arms placed along the body. Ornamentation of lion heads, mascarons, griffins and laurel leaves.
Very beautiful matte mercury gilding and burnished with the original agate. The wall lights have not been drilled for electricity in order to respect
their period integrity.
A similar model is kept at the Château de Rambouillet (previously presented at the Petit and Grand Trianons at Versailles, see
in the book Marie-France Dupuy-Baylet, The Time The Fire The Light – The Bronzes of the National Furniture 1800 – 1870, Édition Faton, 2010, p. 60 illus.
France.
XIXth century.
