Allegorical hanging lamp in gilt bronze... - Lot 271 - Crait + Müller

Lot 271
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Allegorical hanging lamp in gilt bronze... - Lot 271 - Crait + Müller
Allegorical hanging lamp in gilt bronze and patinated bronze symbolizing Africa. It is decorated with a huntress holding a bow, sitting on the movement and surrounded by a leopard and a tortoise. They rest on an arch decorated with palm trees and laurel leaves. Legs in lion's hock on a plain counter-socle with toupie feet. Suspension with wire. Directoire period. H. 61 L. 41 D. 10,5 cm From Louis XIV onwards and during the reign of Louis XV, exoticism was mainly oriented towards the Far East (China, Siam and Japan). Towards the end of the 18th century, under the influence of the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the pre-romantic novel Paul et Virginie by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and a little later Atala by Chateaubriand, but also undoubtedly, thanks to the abolition of slavery by the Convention in 1793, the eyes turn to Africa and America Our model is directly inspired by a drawing by Jean-Simon Deverbie (1764-1824), preserved in the print cabinet of the B.N.F. He was the author of numerous models of clocks or candelabras, made from the Directoire to the Restoration.
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