THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A PAIR OF SINGLE-LIGHT GIRANDOLES

细节
A PAIR OF SINGLE-LIGHT GIRANDOLES

Now lacking candle-branches, each cartouche-shaped mirrored backplate cut with a circle and radiating fans, the base with circular roundel and branch socket, both cracked
36½in. x 16½in. (93cm. x 42cm.) (2)

拍品专文

A pair of sconces of very similar model are in the Irwin Untermyer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, New York. They are illustrated in Y. Hackenbroch et al., English Furniture... in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1958, p. 154, fig. 185. They have a band of blue glass radiating from the candle-socket base and are also illustrated in G. Wills, English Looking-Glasses, London, 1965, p. 112, pl. 120