Pair of Three-Light Wall Lights (Bras de lumière)

France

1740-1755

  • Titles Pair of Three-Light Wall Lights (Bras de lumière) (Descriptive)
  • Medium gilt bronze
  • Dimensions 26 × 16 × 8 1/4 in. (66 × 40.6 × 21 cm)
  • Credit Line Eugenia Woodward Hitt Collection, 1991.75.1-.2
  • Work Type wall lights
  • Classification Furnishings and Equipment

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Tall, footed, bulbous vase of solid white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and applied white and green jasper relief decoration, with a band of ribbon and reed around the edge of the foot, the lower body with stylized acanthus leaves, the main body engine-turned to create blue and white vertical stripes with horizontally applied, molded green straps that together create a basket weave appearance, a band of white bellflowers runs horizontally around the neck, the lip with the same ribbon and reed pattern.
Bust front in uniform with sash and medals.
Small rectangular tray of enameled buff-colored caneware, the interior sides are decorated with a narrow black band all the way around above a red dot and dash pattern, around the edge of the well is a light blue band with green bellflower motifs, in the center is a red triangular motif with a Greek key pattern around the edges and a black urn against a red ground in the middle, scattered around the central motif are various trophies and foliate elements, a pitcher and other design motifs adapted from antiquity.
This model is based on Rauch's monument for Friedrich II in Berlin.