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Pair of Wall Lights

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German Artist · 1651–1738

German-born Burchardt Precht traveled to Sweden in 1674 when he was about twenty-three years old to work with the Swedish architect Nicodemus Tessin the Younger. Precht worked with Tessin, who had spent some time at the court of Louis XIV, to create designs for furniture, altarpieces, pulpits, and crucifixes, bringing the newly fashionable Baroque style to Sweden. Both Tessin and Precht were influ

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Date: about 1700
Medium: Silvered bronze; oak support; mirror glass
Culture: Swedish
Department: Decorative Arts
Institution: Getty Museum

Acanthus leaves, a mask, and rosettes, all typical motifs of the late Baroque period, decorate this pair of oval mirrors. The mirror glass reflected the flames of the candles held in the holders, thereby increasing the amount of light produced. Small mirrored wall lights, consisting of one branch each, would probably have hung in a bedroom or study of a private townhouse. The numbers *20* and *22* painted on the back of each mirror suggest that this pair was once part of a much larger set. The wall lights closely follow a design for mirrors by Daniel Marot, published in an engraving in Holland in 1703. They resemble other silvered and gilded wall lights in the Royal Palace of Drottningholm in Sweden.

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