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Lot 1239

A near pair of American cast bronze four-light gasoliers
Probably by Henry N. Hooper & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, 1850-1860

26 October 2015, 10:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$4,000 inc. premium

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A near pair of American cast bronze four-light gasoliers
Probably by Henry N. Hooper & Co., Boston, Massachusetts, 1850-1860

One assembled and intact, the other disassembled and lacking some elements. Some elements of both stamped 1267; the gas arms of the assembled gasolier marked X, the gas arms of the dis-assembled gasolier marked L or T, variously; together with four period cut-glass globes of similar form and decoration, one later frosted/etched circular glass globe and four later circular globes with metal rims. (41)
height of the assembled gasolier approximately 44in (111.8cm); diameter of arms 34 1/2in (87.6cm)

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Provenance
From the Pickering-Northey house in Salem, Massachusetts.

A virtually identical gasolier is illustrated Henry N. Hooper & Co., Sample book of Lamps, Candelabra and Lighting Fixtures for Gas and Oil, (Boston, MA, 1858); the four-light model was #606.

Built in 1814 on Salem's Chestnut Street, the Pickering-Northey house epitomized the best of Federal brick architecture in historic Salem; it was built by members of the Pickering and Northey families of Salem, who made their fortunes from the China trade.

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