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Day 2: European & Asian Works of Art

Sat, Jan 16, 2016 09:00AM EST - Mon, Jan 18, 2016 09:00AM EST
Lot 492

Set of Six Empire Style Ormolu and

Estimate: $6,000 - $9,000

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Patinated Bronze Wall Lights French, 20th century, after design by André-Antoine Ravrio (1759-1814), each with four turned-up and reeded acanthus sheathed ormolu branches, joined by a ring decorated with flowers and ribbons, attached with foliage scrolls to a central branch with pine cone tip, the whole aloft by wing-turned sheath below the waist, with lambrequins, acanthus leaves, palmettes, scrolls and laurel branches, above a scrolled acanthus and palmette-pierced wall plate, stamped "235/13/3", "235/1", "235/2", "235/7", "235/10", 25 in. old restoration to one drip pan and base of one acanthus element at one base. Provenance: Purchased at Christie's Sale of Continental Furniture 9214, September 29, 1999, lot 263; Private Collection, Florida

Condition

old restoration to one drip pan and base of one acanthus element at one base

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