Pair of wall lights
The stamped inventory numbers indicate that this pair of wall lights belonged to one of the Bourbon collections in Parma in the mid-eighteenth century, but their exact provenance has not yet been determined. Each has two flowers of soft-paste porcelain; the remaining flowers, many of which appear to be later replacements, are of hard-paste porcelain. Gilt-bronze wall lights with porcelain flowers were popular in France in the mid-eighteenth century, but the inventory numbers, as well as the broad chasing on the bowknot and long pendent tasseled ribbons, suggest an Italian origin for this pair.
[Bill Rieder, 1984]
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