Lot Essay
A similar pair of lights feature as sconces on a Regency mirror, illustrated in F.L. Hinckley, Queen Anne and Georgian Looking Glasses, New York, 1987, p. 213, pl. 265.
ONE REGENCY AND THE OTHER OF A LATER DATE
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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD TWO-LIGHT WALL LIGHTS
One Regency and the other of a later date
Each with ribbon backplate hung from a roundel and with splayed eagles standing on a tapering reeded plinth and with scroll branches with caryatid supports and turned brass drip-pans and nozzles, the back of one with inscription
31½ in. (80 cm.) high (2)
One Regency and the other of a later date
Each with ribbon backplate hung from a roundel and with splayed eagles standing on a tapering reeded plinth and with scroll branches with caryatid supports and turned brass drip-pans and nozzles, the back of one with inscription
31½ in. (80 cm.) high (2)