A PAIR OF REGENCY GILTWOOD, GILT-COMPOSITION AND CUT-GLASS TWIN-BRANCH WALL LIGHTS

PROBABLY EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF REGENCY GILTWOOD, GILT-COMPOSITION AND CUT-GLASS TWIN-BRANCH WALL LIGHTS
PROBABLY EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a flaming urn form finial above a tapering leaf-carved fluted standard punctuated with a lion's mask and issuing scrolling candlearms emitting from rosettes and hung with gilt chains ending in tassels and with cut-glass bobeches hung with pendant drop prisms and with a brass candlesocket below further rope chains issuing from foliate scrolls, the back of one with blue paper label 'NEW YORK ANTIQUE AND ART DEALERS ASSOCIATION ART TREASURES EXHIBITION 1955' and numbered '75', regilt, formerly electrified
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high, 16½ in. (42 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Bought from Needhams Antiques, New York, in 1955 and by descent.

Sale room notice

These sconces have additional provenance. They were bought from Needham's Antiques, New York, in 1955 and then by descent.

Lot Essay

The design of these wall lights compares to a pair possibly supplied for Heveningham Hall, Suffolk after the house was enlarged by Sir Gerard Vanneck (d.1791) from 1778. The Library, where these wall lights hung, was designed by the architect James Wyatt in the early 1780's. The Heveningham pair is illustrated in situ in H.A.Tipping, English Homes, Period VI, Vol. I, 1926, pp. 371 and 373, pls. 567, 570, 571 and was later sold Christie's, New York, 17 October 1997, lot 237.

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