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American Decorative Arts

Sconce

1790–1830

Tinned sheet iron

13 × 3 1/2 × 2 1/4 in. (33 × 8.9 × 5.7 cm)
Mabel Brady Garvan Collection
1931.3154.2
Status: 
By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Culture: 
American
Period: 
19th century
Classification: 
Lighting Devices
Provenance: 

Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York; by gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1931

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