Lot Essay
Rupert Gentle and Rachael Field, English Domestic Brass 1680-1810 and the History of its Origins, Elek, London 1975. Similar example illustrated page 134, plate 93.
Details
A pair of brass wall sconces, the flat domed backplates with inverted tops and pierced with suspension holes, above D-shaped trays with centred nozzles, English, probably 18th century -- 11in. (28cm.) high. (2)