A PIERCED BRASS HANGING LANTERN

A PIERCED BRASS HANGING LANTERN

in the Moorish taste, early 20th Century, of tapering octagonal form, each face with a cusped arch glazed with bevelled and cut glass within pierced and repoussé spandrels of palmettes and foliage, beneath a pierced frieze and a domed roof hung on chains, surmounted by a pierced onion cowl with a baluster finial, the lower gallery pierced with hearts and roundels and set with turned finials at the angles, fitted for electricity. 49cm high

The glass is intact. There are some dents to the globular superstructure, and a few minor dents around the base, but generally in good condition.