Paire appliques Lot n° 379

A three-light chased and gilded bronze, the shaft held by a knot of ribbons, is formed by a fluted vase of perfume burner from which smoke escapes, the base decorated with acanthus leaves. The whole holds three branches in console forming the arms of light finished by bobèches and binnacles decorated with acanthus leaves Around 1900, Louis XVI style, work of the house of E Mottheau in Paris H : 60 - W : 41 - D : 31,5 cm Signed on the side of the shaft E Mottheau Paris, numbered on the back Similar model reproduced in Pierre Verlet's book, Les bronzes français du XVIIIe siècle, Editions Picard, Paris 1999, p ; 89, ill. 94.