Sale 6337
London
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16 March 2012
Price realised
GBP 2,375
Estimate
A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV BRASS LAMPS CIRCA 1835, IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM BULLOCK Each with foliate drip pan above a triple cluster column support and triform base terminating in hairy paw feet, fitted for electricity 21 in. (53.5 cm.) high, excluding fitment (2)
Provenance
Humphrey Whitbread Esq., by whom given to the Knight of Glin on his marriage in 1970. Christie's, London, Glin Castle - A Knight in Ireland, 7 May 2009, lot 75.
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