Rare large pair of sconces or ceiling lights with radiating brass structures and frosted glass shades.
This model was recently confirmed to have been a Gio Ponti design by the Gio Ponti archives despite having been attributed to Angelo Lelii in the Arredoluce Catalogue Raisonne 1934-1987. Please refer to Wright auction’s Important Design Including Post War + Contemporary Art sale on June 25, 2019 – lots 350 & 351.
Pansera, Padoan and Palmaghini, Arredoluce Catalogue Raisonne 1943-1987, Milan, 2018, p. 331