BY MESSENGER, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV GILT BRONZE TABLE LAMPS
BY MESSENGER, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
On triform bases with adorsed dolphins to the angles, each with stamp MESSENGER to weighted underside
20½in. (52cm.) high excluding fitments (2)

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Lot Essay

Thomas Messenger, Birmingham manufacturer of 'Chandeliers, Tripods and Lamps of every description in bronze and or-molu', opened a London branch in 1826 (E.Moncrieff, 'Argand Lamps', Antique Collector, February 1990, p.47).

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