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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Lot no. 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

Estimate
€2,000 - €3,000
Result
€2,600
Buyer's premium
30%
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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