The brass chandelier's oak-wreathed and flame-finialed urn for colza-oil is displayed between coronas that are tasseled with glass 'icicle and spangled' drops and crowned with pointed and cusped arches in the Gothic style popularised during the Regency of King George IV by R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, issued from 1809. A chandelier of this form, with glass-globed lamps rising above the large corona, was supplied by the London glass and chandelier manufacturers Messrs. Hancock and Shepherd in 1819 for the dining-room designed by the architect William Porden for Eaton Hall, Cheshire (G. Acloque and J. Cornforth, 'The Eternal Gothic of Eaton - II', Country Life, 18 February 1971, fig. 5). This chandelier is likely to have been commissioned by George Wilbraham (d. 1852) shortly after his inheritance of Delamere House, Cheshire in 1813.