A PAIR OF GILTWOOD AND CUT-GLASS THREE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS

OF GEORGE III STYLE, 19TH CENTURY, ONE WITH EARLIER ELEMENTS

Details

A PAIR OF GILTWOOD AND CUT-GLASS THREE-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
Of George III style, 19th Century, one with earlier elements
Each with a breakfront platform with foliate-scrolled branches and gadrooned drip-pans with drops, supported by a ribbon with musical instruments to the front below an eagle cresting, with a tapering foliage bracket, restorations, the nozzels and drip-pans associated
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; approx 18 in. (46 cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

The girandole brackets, with palm-wrapped candle-branches, are enriched with pearled ribbon-guilloches and Roman acanthus, and are ribbon-tied to laurel-wreathed pastoral trophies of tambourines and horns suspended beneath additional brackets serving as perches for Roman eagles.

More from Important English Furniture

View All