Exceptional English Victorian Bronze Banquet Lamp
third quarter 19th century, in the Rococo revival taste, the cut glass shade decorated with panels of strawberry-cut glass, the lamp labeled on the collar, "Hinks & Sons, Patent", the tank with a scrolled bronze rim hung with swags of grapes and fruits, the body with putti riding dolphins and hippocampi, the lower portion with scrolled handles, set into satyr masques, the four-sided base decorated with scrollwork and shells hung from fruit.
h. 40-3/4", dia. 8-1/2"

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