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A Pair of Russian Ormolu Wall Lights
A Pair of Russian Ormolu Wall Lights
Dimensions: H: 16 in / 41 cm | W: 10 in / 25 cm | D: 5 in / 13 cm
PRICE: £15,000
A Pair of Russian Ormolu Wall Lights
Constructed from gilt bronze, with refined hand-chased finish, each applique modelled as a Bacchic mask, with a grapevine embedded beard and wreath issuing two upward curved arms with foliate nozzles.
Russian, circa 1800
An identical pair of wall-lights was sold in Segoura, Christie's, New York, 19 October 2006, lot 202 ($26,400). A related pair of wall-lights from the Bobinsky collection now in the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg is illustrated in I. Sychev, Russian Bronze, Moscow, 2003, p. 82.
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