A PAIR OF VICTORIAN CUT-GLASS AND SILVERED BRASS SINGLE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

BY OSLER, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF VICTORIAN CUT-GLASS AND SILVERED BRASS SINGLE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
BY OSLER, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with a moulded circular backplate with spire finial and a lower scroll with a further spirally reeded arm to the front supporting a leaf-cut shade hung with faceted chains and with a lower scrolled arm beneath, the metal elemants variously numbered and the metal back plates stamped OSLER, now fitted for electricity
15 in. (38 cm.) high, 18 in. (46 cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

The down-curved arms and tulip-shaped shades are very similar to those found on a design for an electrolier in an Osler pattern book from 1905 (see John P. Smith. Osler's Crystal: for Royalty and Rajahs, Mallet, London, 1991, p. 42). What is interesting about this form is that it is made possible only by the advent of gas burners as it would be an unfeasible design using candles.

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