Three-light wall brackets (set of four) late 18th or early 19th century After a model by F. L. Feuchère père French These four gilt-bronze wall lights are decorated with allegories of love. The stem is fluted in the form of a torch flaring at the top and surmounted by a group of clouds on which two kissing doves and a laurel spray are poised. From the stem emerge two arabesque-shaped branches, linked by a ribbon knot and ornamented with grape bunches and acanthus leaves. In the center, a third arm, higher than the two others, terminates in a small naked cupid holding a flaming heart.The original model of these so-called « lovebirds » wall lights, was made in 1787 by the bronzier Pierre-François Feuchère for the bedchamber of Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville d'Avray, Intendant Général du Garde-Meuble. The workshop of Pierre-François Feuchère, who worked with his son Lucien-François, was one of the most important for the production of luxurious gilt bronze at the end of the eighteenth centu