Pair of two-light sconces in chased and gilded bronze, the s - Lot 355

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Pair of two-light sconces in chased and gilded bronze, the s - Lot 355
Pair of two-light sconces in chased and gilded bronze, the shafts surmounted by putti musicians in large acanthus leaf scrolls and on pinecone stems. The arabesque arms, centered on flowers, support the bobèches and leafy binnacles with pearl friezes. Louis XVI style, early 19th century H. 47 cm - L. 28.5 cm (wear to gilding and oxidation) This pair of sconces is based on an 18th-century model by the foundryman Jean Hauré, cast by Forestier and continued by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (1751-1843) for the Château de Saint Cloud. In their book Vergoldete Bronzen, Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Pröschel note that this sconce model can be attributed to Jean Hauré, who delivered almost identical works to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne in 1787. An almost identical pair of sconces can be found in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Another set of four sconces is in the Wrightsman collection at New York's Metropolitan Museum. Jean Hauré was a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc and became a master founder and maker of gilded bronze furniture and objets d'art for the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne from 1785 to 1788. He is also recorded as supplying a set of ormolu sconces for Marie-Antoinette's card room at Compiègne. As a contractor, Hauré also supplied other furnishing bronzes for royal palaces, such as a set of chenets delivered to Louis XVI's Salon de Jeu at Fontainebleau in 1786.
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