Sale 1500
New York
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15 April 2005
Price realised
USD 14,400
Estimate
A SET OF FOUR REGENCY STYLE GILTWOOD AND BLACK-PAINTED TWO-BRANCH WALL-LIGHTS LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY Each backplate formed of tassled ribbons surmounted by lion's mask centered on a tassled socle by an eagle supporting chains and issuing two scrolled candlearms with gadrooned drip-pans and turned nozzles, electrified, the decoration refreshed 25 in. (63.5 cm.) high, 11½ in. (29 cm.) wide (4)
Provenance
Emily Trevor, and by descent. Acquired with the house.
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Literature
M.A. Hewitt, The Architecture of Mott B. Schmidt, New York, 1991, p. 10 and back cover (shown in situ in the Entrance Hall).
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