A SET OF FOUR EDWARDIAN SILVER-PLATED THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

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These wall-lights are inspired by the celebrated pair of silver chandeliers in the 'Colonnade Rooms' at Knole Park, Kent, first published in Country Life in 1912 and subsequently illustrated in R. Edwards and P. MacQuoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1924-27, vol. 2, P.5, fig, 8. Interestingly Elizabeth, 9th Duchess was a Sackville-West who was brought up at Knole. Probably acquired for Woburn in the early 20th Century, along with a chandelier en suite which remains in the Private Wing, these wall-lights may well have been supplied by the London firm Lenygon & Co., as an identical chandelier was photographed in their showrooms at 31 Old Burlington Street in Francis Lenygon, The Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions during the Seventeenth and Eighteeenth Centuries, London, 1909, p.19). A related set of wall-lights and chandeliers were probably supplied by Lenygon to their client Lord Levehulme for the Hill, Hampstead, where they are shown in an interior photograph of circa 1915; the chandeliers were subsequently sold by the Executors of the late Viscount Leverhulme, Thornton Manor, Cheshire, Sotheby's House sale, 26-28 June lots 59-61.

A SET OF FOUR EDWARDIAN SILVER-PLATED THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS

EARLY 20TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY LENYGON AND CO.

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A SET OF FOUR EDWARDIAN SILVER-PLATED THREE-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS
EARLY 20TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY LENYGON AND CO.
The baluster backplate with flaming urn and with two male terms, the baluster base issuing three scrolled branches and with acanthus leaf-cast cone terminal
17 in. (43 cm.) high (4)

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

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Please note that the illustration is not representative of the condition of these wall-lights and that there are various damages throughout.

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