Sconce, ca. 1785

  • Pierre Philippe Thomire, French, 1751-1843

Gilt bronze

  • Overall: 29 × 48 × 7 3/8 inches (73.7 × 121.9 × 18.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Founders Fund

70.832

On View

  • Fashionable Living, Level 3, South

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild (Vienna, Austria)

Baroness Alphonse de Rothschild (Vienna, Austria)

sold by (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA)

1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

attributed to Pierre Philippe Thomire, Sconce, ca. 1785, gilt bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Josephine and Ernest Kanzler Founders Fund, 70.832.