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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY COMPASS-FRONTED WALL LANTERN
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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY COMPASS-FRONTED WALL LANTERN

SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Details
A GEORGE II MAHOGANY COMPASS-FRONTED WALL LANTERN
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
With shaped cresting and apron and hinged double-arched door with curved glass, with mirrored back plate
23¾ in. (60.5 cm.) high; 10¼ in. (26 cm.) wide; 8¼ in. (21 cm.) deep
Provenance
By repute Hampton Court Palace, Richmond.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

A compass-fronted wall-lantern of this form, but with a pronounced pagoda-topped back, and datable to about 1740, was lent from Wallington Hall, Northumberland, to the exhibition at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, Country House Lighting, 1992, cat. no. 53.

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