Live Auction 5681Christie's Interiors - Style and Spirit
Christie’s roundel
Lot 144

A PAIR OF GILTWOOD AND GILT-METAL THREE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS

AFTER A MODEL BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, LATE 20TH CENTURY

Closed23 February 2010

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GBP 2,375

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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD AND GILT-METAL THREE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
AFTER A MODEL BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, LATE 20TH CENTURY
The baluster backplates with floral swags issuing foliate-wrapped scroll branches
(34½ in. (78.8 cm.) high; 22 in. (58 cm.) wide; 7 in. (17.8 cm.) deep (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).