Sconce
Category
Historic Services / Lighting
Date
1688 - 1702
Materials
Glass mirror plates (mercury/tin amalgam, some of the plates engraved), lead beads, pine backboard
Measurements
84 cm (H)33 cm (W)
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440481.2
Summary
[Saved] One of a pair of William and Mary engraved glass sconces each with two S-shaped brass branches, the divided and cartouche-shaped plates engraved with shells, flowerheads and leaves, and with shaped borders in engraved ginger coloured glass.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1968 by Mrs Hannah Gubbay