A HIGHLY IMPORTANT PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER ROYAL WALL SCONCES London, circa 1690 Each with a cast shaped oval wall plate formed as a baroque cartouche framed by scrolls, fronds, and gadrooning and chased with fish-scale, surmounted by a Royal crown, the cast openwork center panel with a mask of Diana, goddess of the moon against a sunburst, above scrolling foliate decoration, the candelarm formed as a gadrooned scroll issuing from paired acanthus leaves suspending a garland of fruit, the wax-pan and socket circular, with gadrooning, apparently unmarked 8 in. (20.95 cm.) high; arm 9 in. (24.13 cm.) long; 54 oz. (1682 gr.) (2)
A HIGHLY IMPORTANT PAIR OF WILLIAM AND MARY SILVER ROYAL WALL SCONCES London, circa 1690 Each with a cast shaped oval wall plate formed as a baroque cartouche framed by scrolls, fronds, and gadrooning and chased with fish-scale, surmounted by a Royal crown, the cast openwork center panel with a mask of Diana, goddess of the moon against a sunburst, above scrolling foliate decoration, the candelarm formed as a gadrooned scroll issuing from paired acanthus leaves suspending a garland of fruit, the wax-pan and socket circular, with gadrooning, apparently unmarked 8 in. (20.95 cm.) high; arm 9 in. (24.13 cm.) long; 54 oz. (1682 gr.) (2)
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