Pair of twin-branch gilded-bronze Faraday Wall Lights
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Pair of twin-branch gilded-bronze Faraday Wall Lights
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Pair of twin-branch gilded-bronze Faraday Wall Lights:
with scrolling branches and glass baluster stem; dressed with cut-glass ‘icicle’ prisms, bead festoons and clear ball pendants.
Circa 1880, made by Faraday & Co. Birmingham, and restored.
| Height: | 17" | - | 43.0cm |
| Width: | 12" | - | 30.0cm |
| Projection: | 7¾" | - | 19.5cm |
Glossary Words
Faraday & Co.
Founded by Robert Faraday, older brother of famous English scientist Michael Faraday, the English company Faraday & Son. Ltd. specialised in metal period reproductions of lighting. Their factory was in Birmingham with a showroom in Wardour Street, London. A common design of theirs was a scrolling Louis Philippe style chandelier with spherical glass pendants. They were mentioned in the catalogue of The Great Exhibition of 1851 and amalgamated with Osler & Co. in 1919.
Louis Philippe
King of France, 1830-1848. Faraday made chandeliers and wall lights in this style.
