Wonders of the Belle Epoque - 2: Masterpiece London 2022
William Arthur Smith Benson
Made by W.A.S. Benson and Co. Ltd, London. The glass shades were made by James Powell and Sons.
Provenance
Private collection, Villa Carpentier, also known as ‘Les Platanes’, Renaix, Belgium, presumably for most of the XXth century - Willy Vandenhole, acquired directly from the owner of Villa Carpen- tier, 1984 - Antiek Curiosa Gallery, Mechelen, Belgium - Private collection - British private collec- tion, until 2021.
Literature
Maurice Rheims, Kunst um 1900, Munich, 1965, page 229, plate 269. Ian Hamerton (Ed.), W.A.S. Benson, Arts and Crafts Luminary and Pioneer of Modern Design, London, 2005, page 52, plate 29.
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