Details
A SET OF FOUR GEORGE III STYLE GILTWOOD THREE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
Each backplate surmounted by a tied ribbon and tassels over a gardening trophy with tools, a wheat-sheaf, hat, and flower basket, issuing three foliate candlearms with foliate bobeches, the ribbon-tied base over crossed arrows and tassels, restorations
40½in. (118cm.) high, 15½in. (40cm.) wide (4)
Each backplate surmounted by a tied ribbon and tassels over a gardening trophy with tools, a wheat-sheaf, hat, and flower basket, issuing three foliate candlearms with foliate bobeches, the ribbon-tied base over crossed arrows and tassels, restorations
40½in. (118cm.) high, 15½in. (40cm.) wide (4)
Provenance
The late the Hon. Nellie Ionides, Buxted Park, Sussex, sold Sotheby's London, 31 MAy 1963, lot 97
Literature
C.Hussey, 'Buxted Park, Sussex I', Country Life, 4 August 1950, p.377, fig.8 (shown in situ in the Garden Hall)