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