ATTRIBUTED TO EDWARD F. CALDWELL & CO., NEW YORK, CIRCA 1900

Throughout the first quarter of the 20th century, the New York firm established in 1895 by Edward F. Caldwell and continued after his death in 1914 by Victor E. von Lossberg, was perhaps the leading American designer and manufacturer initially of lighting fixtures and, starting in 1910, decorative objects fashioned in metal and various other materials. Working from its foundry at 38 West 15th Street, the company supplied fine quality products to such illustrious names as Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, Jr., J. Pierpont Morgan and Frederick W. Vanderbilt, whilst also providing much of the lighting fixtures for the White House in Washington D.C.