Pair of gilded bronze light arms with two asymmetrical leafy branches supporting a lizard and a chimera, resting on a console-shaped entablature decorated with mascaron, piaster and palmette. After a model by André-Charles Boulle. Louis XIV style, late 19th century H. 54 cm The attribution of this model to André Charles Boulle (1642-1732) is based on Jean Mariette's publication of a pair of sconces with great similarities in Nouveaux desseins de meubles et ouvrages de bronze et de marqueterie inventés et gravés par André-Charles Boulle. Several examples made circa 1710-1720 are now listed; one pair is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, a second pair was sold in Paris on December 10, 1982, lot 108, another pair was sold in Paris, Drouot-Montaigne, on November 22, 1987, lot 220, and a fourth pair was sold in New York, Christie's, on December 12, 2024, lot 9.