w - LEWIS VERON & CO, A PAIR OF TWIN BRANCH COLZA CANDELABRA PHILADELPHIA, CIRCA 1830,

French born, Veron had a ‘Fancy hardware etc, store’ on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. In 1829 Veron was contracted by President Andrew Jackson to furnish the East Room of the White House.

The present pair share similarities with a set of three Argand lamps by Thomas Messenger and Son, Birmingham, retailed by Baldwin Gardiner, New York, that are in the collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art. A further pair of related lamps by the same firm sold Sotheby's London, 10 November 1995, lot 11.