Live Auction 5745The Country House Sale: Pomfret House and Tetworth Hall
A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GILTWOOD FOUR-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
Lot 248

A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GILTWOOD FOUR-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS

AFTER A MODEL BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed5 November 2008

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GBP 4,375

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN GILTWOOD FOUR-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
AFTER A MODEL BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The baluster backplates with floral swags issuing foliate-wrapped scroll branches
31 in. (78.8 cm.) high (2)

Specialist note

The picturesque urn-pillared lights, with their garlands and foliage, derive from a George III French-fashioned pattern for a bronze hexagonal chandelier issued in the third edition of Thomas Chippendale's, Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers Director, 1762 (pl. 154).