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Pair of Wall Lights
Creator
Pierre-Philippe ThomireFrench Designer · 1751–1843
All works by this person →Although trained as a sculptor, Pierre-Philippe Thomire decided to follow his father into the potentially more lucrative profession of bronze caster, becoming the most important one of the late 1700s. Before setting up his own establishment in 1775, Thomire trained in the workshop of Pierre Gouthière. Thomire's big break came when he began assisting Jean-Claude-Thomas Duplessis, the artistic direc
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- about 1787
- Medium
- Gilt bronze and copper
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
The shape of these two large wall lights suggests a vase hung on a real ribbon. Each is decorated with three female masks adorned with feathered crowns and garlands of fruit and flowers, and clusters of oak leaves and acorns are suspended below. The arms of the wall lights sprout vines and grapes. In 1787 the bronze caster Pierre-Philippe Thomire delivered three pairs of wall lights identical to the ones in the Getty Museum to the château of Saint-Cloud for the king's gaming room. Today those wall lights hang in the Petit Trianon at Versailles.
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