KRAEMER GALLERY WORKS OF ART

Beautiful late 17th–early 18th century pair of repoussé,

silvered and gilt burnished metal wall-lights

46,5 cm. High = 18 ¾ inches
34 cm. Wide = 13 ⅜ inches
20 cm. Deep = 7 ⅞ inches
Usual restorations and maintenance

Bibliography:
– HENRIOT Gabriel, Le luminaire : de la Renaissance au XIXe siècle, Éditions Mémoire d’Archives, Paris, 1933, pl.
155, fig. 2.
Comparable example:
– Louvre Museum, Paris: Pierre II Doublet, pair of wall lights, c. 1669-1670 (no. OA 9944).

Beautiful late 17th–early 18th century pair of repoussé, silvered and gilt burnished metal wall-lights

Of oblong shape, with polylobated contours (outlines), they each feature decors of fleurons, stylized shells, foliations, volutes, small gadroons, simulated waves, set on a stippled background of quatrefoils set in lozenge-shaped lattices.

These motifs and a moulding frame the central plaque, which is also polylobated, and allows the candle’s light to be better reflected.

The bottom shows a branch of S and C-shaped foliated and sectioned scrolls, supporting at the end the elaborate drip-pans and the candleholder.

Detail : Beautiful late 17th–early 18th century pair of repoussé, silvered and gilt burnished metal wall-lights

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