These wall lights are copies of an original version made by John Fawdrey in London in 1702. The Fawdrey pair were copied in 1703 by John Rand; a cast of the Rand pair is now housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. These were originally thought to have been Rand's originals, but a spectrographic analysis in 1989 showed that their content was consistent with an early nineteenth century cast, rather than early eighteenth century silver.
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