BY H.N. HOOPER & CO., BOSTON, CIRCA 1850

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AN AMERICAN 'ARABESQUE' GILT-BRASS LANTERN
By H.N. Hooper & Co., Boston, circa 1850
The square tapering frame cast with rocaille ornament, inset with cobalt-blue and ruby cut-and-wheel-engraved glass panels decorated with stylised foliage
24½ in. (62 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The design for this hall lantern, by Henry N. Hooper & Co. is illustrated in their 1850 catalogue. It is listed as 'No 616. Hall Lantern, for oil or gas, Arabesque'. Gerald T. Gowitt, 19th Century Elegant Lighting, Argand, Sinumbra, and Solar Lamps, 2002, p. 28 and p. 39.

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