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A very fine set of four Restauration gilt bronze and cut-glass four-light wall-lights, each with a circular backplate surmounted by an anthemion palmette and terminating in a corresponding boss, with radiating foliate-wrapped curved branches supporting vase-shaped candle holders with indented rims hung with cut glass pendants and droplets
Paris, date circa 1825
Height 30 cm, width 34 cm, depth 29 cm. each.
Literature: Léon de Groer, “Les Arts Décoratifs de 1790 à 1850”, 1985, p. 279, pl. 537, illustrating a slightly earlier gilt bronze five-light wall-light recorded in Queen Caroline’s apartments, at the Residenz Munich. Charles Plante at Shepherd & Derom Galleries, New York, “Designs for Gilt Bronze Objects from the French Restoration 1814-1830”, 2002, p. 61, no. 15, illustrating a design for a similar wall-light with a lion mask backplate.
The overall design combines elements evident in two sets of wall-lights signed by Rabiat and delivered by Thomire-Duterme et Cie in 1810 for the Château de Fontainebleau.
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