PAIR OF SCONCES IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE After a design by Louis-Gabriel Féloix In chased bronze with a steel blue patina and gilding, with three arms decorated with eagle heads rising from a shaft adorned with an amphora flanked by lion heads and surmounted by a basket decorated with fruit and foliage, a satyr's head and music trophies surrounded by a garland of oak leaves at the bottom, monogrammed "G.A." on the reverse. H. 64 cm (25 ¼ in.) l. 32 cm (12 ½ in.) Comparative BIbliography: H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel et al, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p. 243. fig. 4.5.11. P. Verlet, Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe siècle, Picard, 1987, p. 286, fig. 320. A pair of Louis XVI style gilt and patinated bronze three-branch wall-lights, after the model by Louis-Gabriel Féloix This remarkable pair of wall lights, richly decorated with eagles, leonine masks, satyr heads and musical instruments, was inspired by the famous model supplied by Louis-Gabriel Feloix in 1787 for Madame Adélaïde's bedroom in Versailles and Marie-Antoinette's bedroom in Saint-Cloud. The attribution to Feloix, a foundryman who collaborated with great bronzemakers such as the marchand-fondeur Quentin-Claude Pitoin, is based on several deliveries recorded in the journal of the Garde-Meuble in 1787. A pair of sconces of the same design, although of the same period, are in the Wallace Collection in London (inv. F.374-377) and are illustrated in Pierre Verlet's Les Bronzes Dorés Français du XVIIIe siècle, Picard, Paris, 1987, p. 286.