These rare wall lights, with their distinctive and elegant combination of silver and ormolu motifs, relate to the work of Viennese silversmiths and bronziers such as Anton Matthias Domanek (1713-1779), whose most celebrated work is the gueridon of ormolu and steel with petrified wood top, gifted to Marie-Antoinette by her sister Archduchess Maria Christina in 1770 and which remains at the château de Versailles. Domanek also supplied a chandelier in steel and rock crystal which was offered as a diplomatic gift to the King of Denmark and remains in the Royal Collection at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen. A further related steel and ormolu chandelier, attributed to Domanek and with similar stylized foliate ornament, was sold Christie's, Paris, 28 November 207, lot 703 (€187,500).