A PAIR OF GILT-COMPOSITION TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS, each with ribbon-tied mille-raies backplate centred by a rosette, above a bell-husk swag and surmounted by ears of corn, the S-scroll foliate branches with turned drip-pans and stiff-leaf nozzles, fitted for electricity

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A PAIR OF GILT-COMPOSITION TWIN-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS, each with ribbon-tied mille-raies backplate centred by a rosette, above a bell-husk swag and surmounted by ears of corn, the S-scroll foliate branches with turned drip-pans and stiff-leaf nozzles, fitted for electricity
16in. (40.5cm.) wide; 21¼in. (54cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A pair of wall-lights of this model but with ribbon-tied suspended backplates were sold from the Hudson collection, in these Rooms, 27 April 1937, lot 230A. They are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum and are illustrated in R.Edwards and P.Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. III, p. 54, fig.26

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