WNAI - MESSENGER: A VICTORIAN GILT AND PATINATED BRONZE TABLE LAMP; TOGETHER WITH ANOTHER (2)
Late 19th Century, with global etched amethyst tinted glass shade and flue above the burner, marked ‘MESSENGERS PATENT DUPLEX No.2’, above a Corinthian column on plinth base mounted with Bacchic masks, 110.5cm high, the second, as featured in Withnail and I, mounted with gilt-metal sun masks, with conical shade, 66cm excluding fitment
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£150 - £250
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Hammer price:
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£4,000 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
Condition report:
The base with tarnishing, dirt and dust.
Some oxidisation to the gilding on the mask mounts in particular and recesses of the capital. Some small losses to the patination of the column in areas.
Dirt and dust to glass.
One loose sun mount on base of other.
2 small chips to the top rim of the ball shade
