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A monumental pair of silver-plated and bronze five-light sconces Edward Caldwell, New York City, late 19th century image 1
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A monumental pair of silver-plated and bronze five-light sconces
Edward Caldwell, New York City, late 19th century

26 October 2015, 10:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$7,500 inc. premium

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A monumental pair of silver-plated and bronze five-light sconces
Edward Caldwell, New York City, late 19th century

height 49in (124.5cm); width 22in (55.9cm); depth 12in (30.5cm)

Footnotes

Provenance
Biltmore hotel, Atlanta, Georgia

Literature
The Architectural Forum (December, 1929), p. 595

This pair of sconces is one of several that were commissioned for the dining room in the Biltmore hotel in Atlanta. A working drawing for this pair of sconces, dated January 14, 1924, is #A60408 in the Caldwell archives; two are visible in situ in a February 1936 photograph taken by Reeves Studios, Inc., of the Old Timers Rotary Club of Atlanta.

The Biltmore hotel was built by Starrett Brothers in the early 1920s on West Peachtree Street in Atlanta and designed by Schultze and Weaver of New York; it opened on April 19, 1924 and was one of Atlanta's most lavish hotels at the time. Passing through several hands in the late 1960s and late 1970s, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 1980. It continued to change owners and is now office space with only two ballrooms remaining historically intact.

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