Wall lamp Lion
Like many animal motifs, the lion was very popular with 18th-century ornamentalists. It is found in one light of Pierre Thomire from 1788 preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or in one of Louis Gabriel Feloix, dating from the same year and kept at the Wallace Collection.
Topped by a lion’s head whose mane spreads over the sconce, this model consists of a carved bronze cartridge ending in rock ornaments.
Three arms of light rise from the center of the cartridge, emerging from the sheet of small palms, punctuated by a cup placed on a flower, carrying the candle sleeve. The set, in gilded bronze, mixes neo-classical symmetry and Rococo ornaments, in a synthesis of the Louis XV style.