AN EXTREMELY RARE SET OF FOUR ENGLISH EARLY VICTORIAN WALL LIGHTS OF EXCEPTIONAL QUALITY BY F&C OSLER

An extremely rare, early Victorian set of four, five-light cut glass and silver-plated wall lights of exceptional quality. The central slice-cut shaft is surmounted by unusual crossover-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 is centred by a trumpet-shaped stem piece, with a stoppered in lapidary-cut finial. The main receiver plate supports 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 all hung with tapered lapidary-cut ball drops unique to F&C Osler.

• Height 137.5 cm / 54 ¹⁄₄"
• Width 102 cm / 40 "
• Depth 51 cm / 20 ¹⁄₄"