Kraemer & Cie., Paris

Non-invasive XRF testing indicates the bronze alloy is of a composition consistent with work produced in the early eighteenth century.

André-Charles Boulle's activities as a creator and manufacturer of gilt bronze objects were equally as important as his furniture business, and the convoluted arms and acanthus backplates of these wall lights are inspired by designs published in Plate 8 of his Nouveaux dessins de meubles et ouvrages de bronze et de marqueterie engraved by Mariette and published in the 1720s.