A PAIR OF GEORGE III LAFOUNT WALL LIGHTS
REF: FA1319
Maker
A fine pair of ormolu cut glass wall lights mounted on an oval back plate decorated with stiff acanthus leaf and ball bead boarder. The finely knurled receiver plate stamped 'LAFOUNT PATENT' 347 & 348 issuing curved, six-sided arms supporting van dyke drip pans and candle nozzles, terminating with serpent crooks. The receiver plates further mounting a central spire supporting a radial cut finial and canopy, unusually issuing a serpent arm supporting drapes. The lower section with baluster stem above a drop hung canopy and pineapple finial. The wall lights draped with almond and pear shaped chains and finials.
- Height 73.63 cm / 29 "
- Width 45.7 cm / 18 "
- Depth 15.23 cm / 6 "
- Period 1750-1799
- Year 1790
- Country England
- Provenance Private collection USA
- Literature For more information about Moses Lafount please see chapter ten 'The English Glass Chandelier' by Martin mortimer.
- Collections Only a couple of dozen pieces of Lafounts work are known to exist each being stamped with a identification number, this suggesting the amount that were produced as the number always run consecutively with a pair of set. The highest identification number know is 1308 a small six light chandelier with Jeremy LTD. The largest commission know to exist was for the Assembly Rooms in Bury St Edmunds.
