A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU TWO-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU TWO-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
Each with a winged putti blowing a twin-branched horn, with turned flared nozzles with laurel wreaths, standing on an acanthus-scrolled volute with lion-mask and foliate base
18½ in. (47 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Bought by R.W. Weir Paterson, Esq., Robgill Tower, Kirtlebridge from Phillips of Hitchin Ltd., The Manor House, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, 13 October 1954 (£160.0.0).

Literature

M. Jourdain and F. Rose, English Furniture, The Georgian Period (1750-1830), London, p. 171, fig. 140.

Special notice

VAT rate of 17.5% is payable on hammer price and buyer's premium when purchased by non-EU purchasers.

Lot Essay

The French 'Empire' style 'Argand' wall-lights evoke festivities in antiquity with laurel-wreathed bacchic horns trumpeted by Cupids, while proceeding from laurel-wreathed trusses displaying bacchic lions amongst Roman foliage.

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