Pair of Etched Mirror Wall Lights

Pair of Etched Mirror Wall LightsA very decorative pair of etched mirror backed wall lights, each with glass twin arm sconces. Superb hand crafted quality, rare large size, striking accent pieces. Signed 'Jansen' under the plates. Circa 192040. Why we like them With their superb, hand made quality and time softened, 'patrician' look, these wall lights are fabulously chic objects for contemporary and eclectic interiors alike. Maison Jansen was a Paris based interior decoration office

The stylized cluster-column profile of the front legs and the foliate carving on the spandrels found on the present chairs are some of the characteristic features of the documented work of the leading Yorkshire cabinet-making firm of Wright and Elwick (1745-1771)

Another pair thought to have been supplied to Morton John Davidson (1778-1841 for Beamish Park

A very stylish Regency period circular table in rosewood

as the drop can be adjusted with an addition of a required length of chain

ideal as a drinks table / bar trolley

Provenance:

the top and drop leaves are made of solid single planks of mahogany of a rare

fashioned as 19th century late Regency – early Victorian oil lamps

pale-green and polychrome painted in the Gothic fashion

one of Britain's most celebrated cabinetmakers of the 18th and 19th centuries

De Angelis and Sommer where the main Neapolitan foundries that catered for the needs and tastes of the grand-tourists throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries

We love the colour and scale of these splendid urns