LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NEO-CLASSICAL GILTWOOD FIVE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with tapering panelled backplate with roaring lion-mask draped with husk swags, issuing five scrolled branches with nozzles and drip-pans, with swag-draped urn-finial, the metalwork stamped 'W.T. & S. IMPROVED'
35 in. (89 cm.) high (2)

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Lot Essay

With their laurel-festooned and hermed 'quiver-like' pilasters with Bacchic lion-heads capped by Veil-draped and palm-flowered sacred urn tablet, their branches festooned with laurel baguettes, these wall-lights reflect the influence of the architect and 'ornameniste' Jean-Charles Delafosse (1734-1791). Delafosse's Nouvelle Iconologie Historique, 1770, vol. I, fig 92, which was republished by J.F. Chervau Fils, widely disseminated his architectural ideas throughout Europe.

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