PAIR OF EMPIRE PERIOD QUINQUET SCONCES Attributed to the Deharme manufacture In red and gold varnished painted sheet metal, decorated with chased and gilded bronze, with one arm of light coming from a removable shaft surmounted by a bust of Diana, fitted with lampshades; minor accidents and missing parts, holes for the electricity. H. 46.5 cm (18 ¼ in.) l. 15.5 cm (6 in.) A pair of Empire gilt-bronze mounted, painted metal and tole wall-lights, attributed to Deharme manufactory The shape and decoration of these wall-lights, surmounted by a bust of Diana, are similar to a watercolour from the Deharme manufactory, now in the Marmottan library (see Fig. 1) in Boulogne-Billancourt (see N. de Reynies, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, vol. II, p. 731, fig. 2712). Deharme was the most important manufacturer of varnished sheet metal in Paris in the last years of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, both in terms of its activity and the quality of its production. A pair of comparable sconces sold at Christie's London on 17 May 2017, lot 12, while a second pair sold at Sotheby's Monaco on 16 June 1990, lot 896.