Chased and gilt bronze.
H. 80 cm. (31 ½ in.); W. 60 cm. (23 ¾ in.); D. 40 cm. (15 ¾ in.).
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: Inventory numbers and mark of a sovereign royal house: D.7.6.Ꜫ. and D.7.6.4., respectively flanked by a fleur-de-lis and the letters MR [Mobilia Reale or Regia ?] framing a closed crown, the whole incised on the exterior side of the upper scroll of the shaft of each sconce.
PROVENANCE: certainly delivered circa 1750-1755 to a sovereign House related to the Bourbons (presence of the fleur-de-lis on the inventory numbers).
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE: Alvar González-Palacios, Il patrimonio artistico del Quirinale, Gli Arredi Francesi, Milan, 1996, pp. 244-246, cat. n° 54.
