Lot Essay
The design of this lantern, although with plumed finials, is based on that of a very distinguished group of Louis XVI examples of which the closest and best known is in the Wrightsman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, New York (see F. J. B. Watson The Wrightsman Collection, Vol. III, p. 67, No. 304).
Another single lantern, of similar size, was sold at Christie's House Sale, Sacombe Park, Hertfordshire, 11th October 1993, lot 1.
Another single lantern, of similar size, was sold at Christie's House Sale, Sacombe Park, Hertfordshire, 11th October 1993, lot 1.