BY JOHNSTON BROOKES & CO., LONDON, CIRCA 1820

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A PAIR OF GEORGE IV GILT-BRASS TWO-LIGHT ARGAND LAMPS
BY JOHNSTON BROOKES & CO., LONDON, CIRCA 1820
Each pine-cone finial and foliate-cast waisted urn-form reserve with entwined dolphins to the sides on an acanthus-wrapped fluted column support with foliate capital issuing two reeded arms with scrolled tendril brackets and lion mask terminals with clustered shell pendants and etched glass shades, all on a hippocamp tripartite support and a fluted shell-embossed plinth on scrolled paw feet, the wooden support to underside of one replaced, drilled for electricity
27½ in. (70 cm.) high, 18 in. (47 cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

The lamps are designed in the George IV French/antique fashion as inspired by Roman candelabra; their Grecian pillars, capped by bacchic krater-vases with Venus dolphin handles, are raised on altar pedestals with Neptunes addorsed hippocamp sea-horses raised on bacchic lion feet. While manufactured by the London brass-founders and lamp-manufacturers Messrs Johnston Brookes & Co. of New-Street-Square, they may have been designed by William Collins (d.c.1860), celebrated Strand glassman and court glass-manufacturer to George IV.

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