Live Auction 3775The Opulent Eye - 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Works of Art, Ceramics & Carpets
A SET OF FOUR AMERICAN GILT-BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
Lot 90 PROPERTY FROM THE CORNWALL COLLECTION

A SET OF FOUR AMERICAN GILT-BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS

BY EDWARD F. CALDWELL & CO., NEW YORK, FIRST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY

Closed21 October 2015

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A SET OF FOUR AMERICAN GILT-BRONZE FIVE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
BY EDWARD F. CALDWELL & CO., NEW YORK, FIRST QUARTER 20TH CENTURY
Each with scrolling foliate back-plate issuing acanthus branches, the reverse of two stamped C within a lozenge, one further stamped 4, another GA 181
29¾ in. (73.5 cm.) high, 17 in. (43 cm.) wide

Christie's, New York, 17-18 November 1999, lot 658.

Specialist note

While the model for the present group of wall lights appears in the photographic archives for Edward F. Caldwell & Co., no corresponding design records or draughtsman sketches are extant. However, it was common practice for Caldwell and, later his partner Victor von Lossberg, to travel abroad to acquire decorations of various style and manufacture to subsequently retail in their New York showroom.