Live Auction 5444Town & Country Perspectives - The Charles Plante Collection
AN AMERICAN 'ARABESQUE' GILT-BRASS LANTERN
Lot 151

AN AMERICAN 'ARABESQUE' GILT-BRASS LANTERN

BY H.N. HOOPER & CO., BOSTON, CIRCA 1850

Closed4 June 2008

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GBP 6,000

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AN AMERICAN 'ARABESQUE' GILT-BRASS LANTERN
By H.N. Hooper & Co., Boston, circa 1850
The square tapering frame cast with rocaille ornament, inset with cobalt-blue and ruby cut-and-wheel-engraved glass panels decorated with stylised foliage
24½ in. (62 cm.) high

Specialist note

The design for this hall lantern, by Henry N. Hooper & Co. is illustrated in their 1850 catalogue. It is listed as 'No 616. Hall Lantern, for oil or gas, Arabesque'. Gerald T. Gowitt, 19th Century Elegant Lighting, Argand, Sinumbra, and Solar Lamps, 2002, p. 28 and p. 39.