Museum Collections

Pair of cast Sheffield plate Argand lamps; each with a hour-glass shaped pedestal with molded midband ring and cast foliate scrolls applied around the center, a lobed circular foot and a spiral gadrooned rim; each pedestal seated on a square platform with an applied gadrooned edge and four cast hairy paw feet with foliate scroll knees; each pedestal supports a second smaller baluster pedestal with fluting around the lower half and a gadrooned rim; the second pedestals support cylindrical shafts with molded rings; each has two cast arms with acanthus decoration applied to the sides of the shaft; two cylindrical tubes applied to the tops of the arms at the lamp ends; cylindrical lamp shafts applied to the arms vertically; globular reservoirs with ball drops, concave shoulders, applied gadrooned rims and circular perforations in the tops, applied to the bases of the lamp shafts; gadrooned rings around the centers of the shafts hung from circular supports at the tops; circular pedestal applied to the top of each shaft which support the burners; baluster pedestal with a cast foliate scroll base applied to the top of the central shaft; large globular bodies with fluting around the lower halves applied to the tops; bodies with concave shoulders, gadrooned rims and applied fluted domes surmounted by pineapple finials; both rewired for gas; no maker's marks.