A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD WALL LIGHTS, English, circa 1780
Width: 44 in; 111.5 cm
Depth: 16 in; 41 cm
Further images
Note: The wall lights retain some of the original gilding, the candle arms and nozzles are original.
Robert Adam’s designs for wall lights for Derby House in Grosvenor Square and Apsley House, Hyde Park Corner, preserved in Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, England, use similar decorative devices, in particular the central roundel with laurel leaves and the lambrequin with urn cresting. A drawing of ‘The Fete for the Earl of Derby at The Oaks in Epsom, Surrey’, also in Sir John Soane’s Museum, shows a further related wall light.
Provenance
Private collection, Herefordshire, England.Literature
Arthur Bolton, The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, 1922, vol. II, pp. 75-7.
Eileen Harris, The Furniture of Robert Adam, 1973, pls 93-4.
Elizabeth White, Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design: The Printed Sources, 1990, pp. 388-9.
Illustrated:
Ronald Phillips, Fine Antique English Furniture, London 2018, pp. 190-193
