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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.
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Title: Wall light (one of a pair)
Date: birds 1662–1722, flowers and mounts ca. 1750
Culture: French, Vincennes and Chinese
Medium: Glazed biscuit Chinese porcelain parrots of K'ang Hsi period; soft-paste Vincennes porcelain flowers; 19th century hard-paste flowers; gilt-bronze
Dimensions: Height: 23 in. (58.4 cm)
Classification: Metalwork-Gilt Bronze
Credit Line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
Object Number: 1982.60.65
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