Wall Lights, Lanterns & Sconces
Large Pair of Early Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Wall-Lights
£2,600
A pair of large gilt bronze wall sconces in the style of Michel-Paul-Joseph DeWez, the leaf-cast back-plates with lion masks above portrait medallions and each supporting three husk-draped, leaf-cast scroll branches with fluted candle-nozzles
Height 71 cm (28 inches)
circa 1900
Michel-Paul-Joseph DeWez, born at Halanzy in Luxembourg in 1724, was apprenticed at the prestigious workshop of Jacques Röettiers in Paris in the 1760s. Elected maître orfèvre in Brussels in 1773, he became bijoutier-orfèvrier to Charles, duc de Lorraine et Bar, Governor-General of the Low Countries
