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A SET OF FOUR TWO-LIGHT GILTWOOD WALL LIGHTS
Lot 41

A SET OF FOUR TWO-LIGHT GILTWOOD WALL LIGHTS

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

Fermé18 March 2009

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GBP 3,500

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A SET OF FOUR TWO-LIGHT GILTWOOD WALL LIGHTS
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with a ribbon-tied backplate, with an eagle on a rocky platform under wheat, holding chains in his beak connecting to the scrolled candle branches, with turned nozzles and drip-pans, fitted for electricity
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) wide

Note du spécialiste

These 'girandole' wall-lights, conceived in the late l8th century French/antique fashion popularised by Thomas Sheraton's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, (1793), relate to a girandole at Halnaby Hall, Yorkshire (see M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, 1965, p.95, fig.228). Other related girandoles, guarded by Jupiter eagles were sold in the Michael Lipitch Collection, Sotheby's, London, 22 May 1998, lot 116.