A set of four silver-plated wall sconces

UNMARKED, 19TH CENTURY

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A set of four silver-plated wall sconces
unmarked, 19th century
The cartouche-shaped back plates chased with scrolls and acanthus foliage on a matted ground and with Earl's coronet cresting, the leaf-capped scroll branches each terminating in a shaped-circular drip-pan chased with husks and lobes and with cylindrical foliate socket, the centres with oval cartouche chased with a coat-of-arms, drilled for electricity
9¾in. (20.6cm.) high

The arms are those of Sackville impaling Compton for Charles, 6th Earl of Dorset K.G., (b.1637) and his second wife Mary (d.1691), daughter of James, 3rd Earl of Northampton, whom he married in 1685. (4)

Lot Essay

These sconces are electrotype versions of James II sconces from Knole, Kent. Four from the set hang with the Charles II pair of sconces in the King's Bedchamber at Knole. Six were exhibited at 25 Park Lane, London, W.1., The Loan Exhibition of Old English PLate, 1929, no.742, pls. XVIII, XXV and XXVIII, the property of The Lord Sackville.

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