A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND EBONIZED TWO-LIGHT SCONCES

CIRCA 1790

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND EBONIZED TWO-LIGHT SCONCES
Circa 1790
Each with reeded and fluted backplate surmounted by an ebonized eagle perched on a pedestal with chains and tassel, above a laurel wreath and ribbon-tie above a lion-head, issuing a pair of S-shaped candlearms with nozzles, regult, nozzels drilled for electricity
36in. (91cm.) high, 14in. (35cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Probably supplied to Sir Gerard Vanneck for Heveningham Hall, Suffolk
By descent through the family until sold by the Australian Trustees of the Heveningham Hall Settlement, Sotheby & Co., London, 10 July 1970, lot 26

Literature

H.A.Tipping, English Homes, Period VI, Vol.I, 1926, pp.371 and 373, pl. 567, 570, 571 (shown in situ in the Library at Heveningham Hall)
C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Mid Georgian 1760-1800, 1955, pp.174-175, pl.350-351a

Lot Essay

These wall lights may have been supplied for Heveningham Hall in Suffolk after the house was enlarged by Sir Gerard Vanneck (d.1791) from 1778. The Library, where these wall lights hung, was designed by the architect James Wyatt in the early 1780's.