A set of four silver two-light wall sconces, in two sizes, apparently unmarked, English, 20th Century

in late 17th Century Dutch or English style, decorated with embossed foliage, flowers and masks, each fitted with similar pairs of drip pans and cast branches, each on an oak back plate

Mostly in good condition apart from a couple of very small splits at edges, they have been lacquered, the oak backs have each been constructed from two or more pieces of wood and have shrunk or expanded
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These sonces are said to be copies of those from the Earl of Ilchester's collection, which were exhibited at the Exhibition of British Art at the Royal Academy in January 1934. For an illustration of a single sconce, unmarked, circa 1660, similar to the larger examples in this lot, see Michael Clayton, The Collector's Dictionary of the Silver and Gold of Great Britain and North America, London, &c, 1971, p. 249, pl. 497.