Two pairs of matching Edward VII silver wall lights, James Wakely & Frank Clarke Wheeler, London, 1908/9

In William III style, openwork backplates of shaped oval form, the vacant reflectors with gadrooned borders flanked by eagle's heads, strapwork, flowers and foliage, surmounted by winged putti holding a blossoming branch in one hand and a flaming urn in the other, each with two scroll branches with gadrooned drip-pans and baluster sockets, two marked James Wakely & Frank Clarke Wheeler, 1908, and two marked Wakely and Wheeler, 1909

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.