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French brass, copper and glass hall lantern,
With pressed copper ring above stepped dome finial with scrolls to each corner, leading to four trapezium glazed brass bound panels above a further four larger inverted glazed panels, one with door enclosing a single candle light, terminating with a copper domed finial. French late ninetieth/early twentieth century.
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