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Jean-Joseph de SAINT-GERMAIN (Paris, 1719 - 1791), attribute…
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Jean-Joseph de SAINT-GERMAIN (Paris, 1719 - 1791), attribute…
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Estimate €30,000 - €50,000
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Description
Jean-Joseph de SAINT-GERMAIN (Paris, 1719 - 1791), attributed to
AN EXCEPTIONAL PAIR OF CYNEGETIC DECORATED ARM LIGHTS
In gilt bronze with a deer and a wild boar, accompanied by a dog, with two branches and openwork decoration of rocaille and foliage.
Mid 18th century.
H: 41 cm, W: 30 cm
(Electricity breakthrough).
Note.
These sconces with hunting subjects are to be compared with another pair, relatively similar in style and decorated with deer heads, signed by the famous bronzemaker Jean Joseph de Saint Germain (H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, T1, p.109).
They are distinguished by the exceptional quality of their chasing. Its execution can be compared with the work of Jean-Joseph de Saint-Germain, who was awarded the title of Master Foundryman in 1748.
The particularly naturalistic treatment, as well as the elegant play of curves and counter-curves of the arms of light, are fully in keeping with the decorative vocabulary developed by this bronzemaker during the 1750s.
Several comparable examples have also come to the art market in recent decades:
a pair with two arms of light, signed Saint-Germain, sold at Sotheby's in London on 11 December 1970 (lot 34); another pair with two arms of light dispersed at Sotheby's in Monaco on 11 and 12 February 1979 (lot 216);a third pair with two arms of light sold at Hôtel Drouot on 10 December 1993 (lot 71); a fourth pair, also with two arms of light, sold at Hôtel Drouot on 31 March 2015 (lot 66); and finally, a pair with three arms of light sold at Sotheby's in Paris on 5 May 2015 (lot 171).
These sconces can also be compared with a rare Louis XV-period frame in gilt bronze, decorated with hunting trophies and boar heads. From the Alexander collection, it was sold at Christie's in New York on 30 April 1999 (lot 127). Its outer rim featured an ove motif identical to that on the shafts of our sconces, reinforcing the stylistic link between these different creations.
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