AN EXTREMELY RARE SET OF FOUR ENGLISH EARLY VICTORIAN WALL-LIGHTS OF EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY BY F&C OSLER
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An extremely rare early Victorian set of four five light cut glass silvered mounted wall-lights of exceptional quality the central slice cut shaft surmounted by unusual cross over diamond cut balls and glass covered fixing plates the upper ball supporting a flute cut container surmounted by five Shepherds crooks which in turn are suspending chains of drapery the crook container centred by a trumpet shaped stem piece and a stopped in lapidary cut finial the main receiver plate supporting five notched cut candle arms arranged on three levels and terminating with drop hung scalloped drip pans and flat diamond cut thistle shaped candle nozzles the flute cut receiver bowl with scalloped edge is surmounted by a tapered lapidary cut finial the wall- lights are of exceptional quality throughout all hung with tapered lapidary cut ball drops unique to F&C OSLER (The Fixing Plates Stamped F&C OSLER).
- Height 137.5 cm / 54 1⁄4"
- Width 102 cm / 40 "
- Depth 51 cm / 20 1⁄4"
- Period 1850-1899
- Year 1860
- Country England
- Signed F&C Osler
- Literature For information on F&C OSLER see Chapter fourteen The English Glass Chandelier by Martin Mortimer John P Smith Osler's Crystal for Royalty and Rajahs Mallet Ltd 1991
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