BY BARCLAY AND SON

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A SET OF SIX REGENCY BRASS TWIN-BRANCH OIL WALL LIGHTS
By Barclay and Son
Each with a laurel-wreathed urn with pinched neck and foliate top above two turned arms each issuing a turned stem, one with maker's label inscribed 'BARCLAY & SON LAMP MAKERS 138, REGENT STREET LONDON', with lappeted drip-pan and ring-turned and tapering reservoir, fitted for electricity, restorations
15½in. (39.5cm.) high (6)

Lot Essay

There is a closely related pair of standing lamps by Hancock and Rixon of Great Marlborough Street in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, Derbyshire. One of them is illustrated in Temple Newsam Country House Studies, Country House Lighting 1660-1890, Leeds, 1992, p. 87-8, cat. no. 71.

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