Description
A Rare 17th Century Wrought Iron Pendant ‘Louvre’ Light, similar to an illustrated example in ‘Iron and Brass Implements of the English House’ by J. Seymour Lindsay, fig 248, used in the fish houses of Great Yarmouth. The hook-ended wrythen suspension rod with spike for driving into the frame of the herring smoker’s louvres leading down to a twin branch base bearing a pricket to one side and rolled candle socket to the other, (41 cm) in length.