Pair of wall lights decorated with acanthus leaves... Lot 36

Pair of wall lights decorated with acanthus leaves and oak Louis XV style Gilt bronze Bears the hallmark of the crowned C H. 83 cm ; W. 54 cm ; D. 29 cm A garland of oak leaves sprinkled with small acorns wraps around the three-light arm, which is based on the large model in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (fig. 1). The pair of sconces, attributed to Jean-Claude Th omas Duplessis, bears the crowned C, a hallmark used between 1745 and 1749 (H. Ott omeyer and P. Pröschel (eds.), Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, I, p. 143).