A PAIR OF MASSIVE REGENCY GILTWOOD THREE-LIGHT WALL APPLIQUES

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A PAIR OF MASSIVE REGENCY GILTWOOD THREE-LIGHT WALL APPLIQUES
Each with a winged female caryatid figure, one with her hair centred by a crescent moon, the other crowned with laurel, with material-draped waist above scrolling acanthus issuing three scrolling foliage branches with turned ormolu drip-pans and nozzles, the outer pair each with a cut-glass drip-pan with lozenge and circular pendants, regilt, the cut-glass drip-pans and drops possibly replaced
54 in. (137 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

The flowered wall-lights scroll from acanthus foliage beneath hermed busts of the sun-god Apollo and his sister Diana, the moon goddess. Their Nike victory wings display the antique style fahionable around 1800.

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