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A SET OF TWELVE CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
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A SET OF TWELVE CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS

OF GEORGE III STYLE, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE CUT-GLASS TWO-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
OF GEORGE III STYLE, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with a pierced oval gilt-metal back-plate with foliate centre, with three serpentine branches and a central pineapple issuing from a central baluster, hung with drops, losses and loose drops, one nozzle, one drip-pan and one branch broken
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) high (12)
Provenance
Probably Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt. (1888-1939) or his sister, Sybil, wife of the 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley, Houghton Hall, Norfolk and by descent.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

The lights, with golden 'Apollo' sunflowered medallion plates, have scalloped crystal Egyptian-obelisk pillars, such as featured on candelabra that William Perry of Fleet Street supplied in the early 1780s to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1811) (M. Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Woodbridge, 2000, p. 99, pl. 45).

These wall lights were previously used in the Picture Gallery at Houghton.

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