The term “gaslighting” originates from the 1938 play and 1944 film Gaslight, in which a husband manipulates his wife into thinking she is mentally ill by dimming their gas-fueled lights and telling her she is hallucinating.

This pair of finely chiseled, gilded bronze wall lights is a better form of gaslighting (formerly gas, now electrified). These are fine examples of unique and well executed decorative art from the sometimes quality-impaired later 19th century circa 1880. Gas fuel was a primary source of lighting in Europe from about 1800 to 1880 when it was progressively replaced with electricity.

H: 13 inches.

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