Wall light (one of a pair)

Unknown

birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750 · Glazed biscuit Chinese porcelain parrots of K'ang Hsi period; soft-paste Vincennes porcelain flowers; 19th century hard-paste flowers; gilt-bronze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The combination of porcelain made in both France and China with French gilt bronze would have made these wall lights very fashionable in the mid-eighteenth century.

Artist

Unknown

Date

birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750

Medium

Glazed biscuit Chinese porcelain parrots of K'ang Hsi period; soft-paste Vincennes porcelain flowers; 19th century hard-paste flowers; gilt-bronze

Culture

French, Vincennes and Chinese

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982