Pair of French Gilt Bronze Three-Arm Wall SconcesLouis XV Style — France, Early 20th Century

DETAILS:
Size: each — approximately 30 × 30 cm (11.8 × 11.8 in)
Material: gilt bronze
Style/Period: Louis XV style, French, early 20th century
Sockets: three per sconce, six total — inspected and tested before dispatch, rewired where needed, and delivered working and ready to use
Lampshades: not included
Shipping: professionally packed, fully insured, worldwide
Condition: good; gilt bronze warm and even across both sconces; fully functional
Returns: accepted within 30 days

Before dispatch, our workshop will inspect and test the electrical system, with rewiring and replacement fittings where needed. Delivered working and ready to use.

The three-arm wall sconce occupies a particular place in the French decorative tradition — more generous than the two-arm pair, less imposing than the five-light grands modèles, and perfectly scaled for the rooms that most people actually live in. The Louis XV foundries understood that a sconce with three arms, properly composed, could fill a wall with both structure and warmth without dominating it, and the form they settled on — scrolling arms rising from a central body chased with shell and acanthus, the whole composition growing organically upward — became one of the most reproduced in French decorative history, because rooms of every period kept finding it exactly right.

This pair is French, early twentieth century, cast in gilt bronze with the warmth and weight of a foundry working in a tradition it understood thoroughly. Each sconce is built around a circular backplate chased with a bold shell-and-acanthus rosette, from which a central knop rises before the three arms branch outward: two sweeping wide to the sides and one descending at centre, each arm chased along its full length with acanthus leaf ornament and terminating in a foliate socket cup and beaded bobèche. Note how the arms do not simply radiate from the backplate but grow from a common junction — a tied bundle of leaves at the centre from which each branch separates individually, the botanical logic that gives Louis XV bronzework its sense of natural growth rather than mechanical assembly. The gilt is warm and even across both sconces.

Whoever lit their rooms with these before you kept them in good working order. Both sconces are functional and well matched. They arrive inspected and tested before dispatch, rewired where needed, and delivered working and ready to use.

They arrive professionally packed and fully insured. Returns are accepted within 30 days.

Condition

Electrical details

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A decorative style is not a guarantee of a particular maker or date. See the individual listing for the stated attribution and period.

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