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Lot Essay
A lantern, with related cresting of Grecian acroteria is illustrated in R. Gentle and R. Field, English Domestic Brass, Woodbridge, 1994 (p. 189, fig. 10). Another, with the same pattern of palm-wrapped thyrsic finials is at Aske, Richmond, Yorkshire (C. S. Sykes, 'The Raising of Aske', The World of Interiors, July 1985 (p. 145).
This lantern is thought to have come from Spettisbury House, Dorset, built circa 1735 for John Hody by the Bastard family of architects. The house was largely demolished in 1927, however the front remained standing in a ruined state for some years afterwards (A. Oswald, Country Houses of Dorset, London, rev. ed., 1959, p. 26 and The Destruction of the Country House, Exhibition Catalogue, 1974, fig. 61).
This lantern is thought to have come from Spettisbury House, Dorset, built circa 1735 for John Hody by the Bastard family of architects. The house was largely demolished in 1927, however the front remained standing in a ruined state for some years afterwards (A. Oswald, Country Houses of Dorset, London, rev. ed., 1959, p. 26 and The Destruction of the Country House, Exhibition Catalogue, 1974, fig. 61).