Lot n° 281
Estimation :
2000 - 3000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 2 600EUR
Sconce after Jean-Charles Delafosse, known as "à la dépouill - Lot 281
Sconce after Jean-Charles Delafosse, known as "à la dépouille du lion de Némée".
in chased and gilded bronze with neo-classical decoration of laurel garlands, pine cones, rams' heads and wolf's teeth. The dial is surmounted by an urn with drapery on a frieze of posts framed by Greciques. Signed on the dial and movement François Antoine à Paris active in 1766 rue d'Orléans.
Louis XVI period
H. 82 cm - L. 40 cm
(movement in working order and original gilding)
A preparatory drawing by Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1789) is kept at Waddesddon Manor, Rothschild Foundation, Aylesbury, UK.
Identical model in the Hôtel de la Marine and Musée de Beaux-Arts de Tours.
Lit. Ottomeyer/Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, volume I, figure no. 3.8.4
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