A pair of Louis XV ormolu wall-lights “aux perroquets”
Jean-Claude Duplessis (ca.1695 – 1774)
Paris, ca. 1750
Dimensions:
81.5 x 58 cm
Literature:
– H. Ottomeyer / P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen. vol. I, München 1986, fig. 2.11.17/18
An almost identical pair of wall-lights is in the Louvre (OA 3889-90; Dreyfus 1913, No. 290)