Pair of antique Louis XV style ormolu six-branch wall lights
£8,500
With their beautiful scrolling, organic forms, these wall lights epitomise the Louis XV revival style, which was fashionable in France in the 19th Century.
The ormolu lights spring from scroll-edged backplates, which attach the pieces to the wall. These backplates are decorated with strapwork, Green Man masks and fruiting vines. For each piece, a single leafy, vine-line arm curls out from the backplate, splitting into two parts to support the upper and lower sections of the stem. Each light has a lower finial, which curves upwards to form a seat for a putto, who raises his arms as if to support the six branches of the light above. These foliate branches extend upwards to support leafy drip-pans and capitals with fluted tops.
These pieces will look beautiful in a low-lit interior, since this environment will enhance the beauty of the objects and the way in which the light plays on their gold coloured surfaces.