Lot Essay
Designed in the early 19th Century antique manner, and surmounted by an ormolu corona of palm and acanthus leaves above a triple tier of tazzas with drops and stalactites, the general form of this chandelier relates to a pattern supplied to Napoleon I by the cabinet-maker and house-furnisher George Bullock (d. 1818) of London and Lancaster (see George Bullock, Blairman's Exhibition Catalogue, London 1988, fig. 10)
This '12 light cut glass chandelier' is recorded in the Second Drawing Room in the 1840 Inventory
This '12 light cut glass chandelier' is recorded in the Second Drawing Room in the 1840 Inventory