Live Auction 20948Au Bord Du Lac: An interior by François-Joseph Graf
A PAIR OF BRASS, COPPER AND GLASS TABLE LAMPS
Lot 241

A PAIR OF BRASS, COPPER AND GLASS TABLE LAMPS

BY W.A.S. BENSON (1854-1924), EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF BRASS, COPPER AND GLASS TABLE LAMPS
BY W.A.S. BENSON (1854-1924), EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Together with a smaller brass and glass table lamp by W.A.S. Benson, stamped 'BENSON', and two early 20th-century copper and silk table lamps
Large pair: 19 1⁄4 in. (49 cm.) high
Single: 11 1⁄2 in. (29 cm.) high
Copper pair: 14 in. (36 cm.) high

Supplied by François-Joseph Graf.

Specialist note

A lamp of near identical design to the pair, but silvered and with apparently different switch arrangement, is illustrated in I. Hamerton ed., W.A.S. Benson: Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design, Woodbridge, 2005, p. 147, pl. 125, that example is cited as 'Single Light Table Standard' with the Benson model reference 'No. 1192/S'; comparables for the single Benson lamp are illustrated p. 151, pl. 132 and are described as 'Single-light combination table standard and brackets No. 1293/S'.