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A PAIR FRENCH ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT WALL-APPLIQUES BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1878 The ribbon-tied backplate suspending a leaf-cast wreath above a lyre headed by a female mask and centred by a later electrical switch, flanked by berried laurel branches, signed and dated 'henry Dasson. 1878', fitted for electricity 57 ? in. (145.5 cm.) high; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) wide
These wall-lights are based on a model made by Pierre Gouthière after wax models by Fran?ois-Joseph Bélanger for the duchesse de Mazarin in 1781. The sale of her collection on 10-15 December 1781 included one such pair described as being 'par Goutthier'. The model was revived during the second have of the 19th century as exemplified by these superb replicas by Henry Dasson dated 1878. Another pair of 19th century replicas, unsigned and as such of lesser importance to the present lot, sold Le Gout Steinitz, I; Christie’s, New York, 19 October 2007, lot 54 ($46,600). Dasson is prized especially for the refinement of his ormolu and was awarded the?médaille d'or?at the Paris?Exposition Universelle?of 1878 where he was applauded ‘M. Dasson, dont l'exposition, par sa valeur propre aussi bien que par sa tenue et son grand air, est l’une des meilleures de la Section fran?aise’ and ‘M. Dasson est donc un artiste du meilleur titre’ (L’Art Moderne a L’Exposition universelle de 1878, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1879 p. 352 & 356).