146. 146W Deux paires d'appliques de style Régence en bronze doré, d'après un modèle de André Charles Boulle, fin XIXe siècle Two pairs of Régence style ormolu two-branch wall lights, after a model of André Charles Boulle, late 19th century Each with foliate scrolling bracket backplate with female mask surmounted by piastres motif, with a seated dragon issuing the scrolling foliate branches, one branch with a downswept lizzard, terminating in foliate and flowerhead-cast drip-pans and beaded nozzles, each wall light numbered '5857' behind the dragon, 56.5cm high, 22cm wide, (22 1/4in high, 8 3/4in wide) Related Literature: André Charles Boulle, Un nouveau style pour l'Europe, exhibition catalogue, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, 2009, p.272-3, cat.34a-b, p.363, cat.87h. This unusual model of dragon and lizard wall-lights was created and engraved by André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732) in his 'Nouveaux Deisseins' published in 1725-30. The model, circa 1710-1715, was described by Boulle as: 'Bras pour un grand cabinet'. Announcing the rocaille style, the celebrated collector Ange Lalive de Jully, pioneer of the Neoclassical style, or 'goût Grec', owned a pair of wall-lights of this model. A pair of this model is conserved in the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, inv. 4766 a et b.