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THE HEVENINGHAM HALL WALL LIGHTS
england , circa 1800 - 1810
An exceptional and historically important pair of late 18th century George III period carved gitlwood and gilt gesso neo-classical wall lights. The carved detail of exceptionally fine quality throughout, the lights each adorned with ebonized opposing winged eagle crests over elegant giltwood frames with laurel wreath in-the-round collars, draped swags, scrolled arms, brass bobeches, a center ribbon topped tablet with a lion mask, eagle heads on scrolls and a leaf decorated lower stem. Retaining original water gilding.
An outstanding pair of neo-classical wall lights.
An outstanding pair of neo-classical wall lights.
Provenance
Heveningham Hall, Suffolk
Likely supplied to Sir Gerard Vanneck for Heveningham Hall, Suffolk
By descent through the family
until sold by the Australian Trustees of the Heveningham Hall Settlement,
Sotheby & Co., London, 10 July 1970, lot 26
With Jeremy Ltd., Belgravia
Private Collection, Canada
Sothebys New York, 17 October 1997, lot 237
WIth Devenish, New York
Private Collection, USA
Likely supplied to Sir Gerard Vanneck for Heveningham Hall, Suffolk
By descent through the family
until sold by the Australian Trustees of the Heveningham Hall Settlement,
Sotheby & Co., London, 10 July 1970, lot 26
With Jeremy Ltd., Belgravia
Private Collection, Canada
Sothebys New York, 17 October 1997, lot 237
WIth Devenish, New York
Private Collection, USA
Stock number
U10.123
dimensions
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Height: 35.50 in (90.17 cm)
Width: 12.00 in (30.48 cm)
Depth: 8.00 in (20.32 cm)
Width: 12.00 in (30.48 cm)
Depth: 8.00 in (20.32 cm)
These wall lights were supplied for Heveningham Hall in Suffolk after the house was enlarged by Sir Gerard Vanneck (d.1791) from 1778. The Library, where these wall lights hung, was designed by the architect James Wyatt in the early 1780's. The lights can be clearly seen in historic photographs of the library as illustrated in Country Life in 1925.
H.A.Tipping, English Homes, Period VI, Vol.I, 1926, pp.371 and 373, pl. 567, 570, 571
(shown in situ in the Library at Heveningham Hall)
C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Mid Georgian 1760-1800, 1955, pp.174-175, pl.350-351 a
Grosvenor House Handbook, 1998, p.83 (with Devenish)
(shown in situ in the Library at Heveningham Hall)
C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Mid Georgian 1760-1800, 1955, pp.174-175, pl.350-351 a
Grosvenor House Handbook, 1998, p.83 (with Devenish)
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