"Rare Set Of Three Wall Lights, Repoussé Solid Silver With Foliage And Scrollwork Motif"
I present a refined set of two double and one single wall sconces in embossed silver leaf and worked with acanthus leaves with scrolls, slightly twisted bobêches, generous flanges of deployed leaves, bases in acanthus leaf plume from which hollow tubular arms with a beautiful whip start, initially letting electric wires pass through. Made native to the candle, they can currently be used for electric lighting by means of re-equipment. I like these three pieces like that and find their ornamental interest assumed. Carefully assembled, refined from these 842 grams of unhallmarked silver, I think these pieces are English and manufactured in the British colonies for the United Kingdom, in the first part of the 20th century (passage of very fine wires), the rear attachment system with hot-welded tab and bar. These are original points of light, in the great tradition of the arrangement of a resolutely elegant apartment, precious at the same time light in the neo Louis XV taste. These pieces in good condition, complete have a real decorative asset and are uncommon