The plain glass chandelier of this form was developed around 1720: a pair of glass candlebranches was supplied with a pair of gilt-gesso pier glasses to John Mellor for Erddig, Denbighshire by John Pardoe in 1720, and although not a chandelier, the form of arms was that adopted by craftsmen employed in creating the larger glass creations. A glass chandelier presented to Emmanuel College, Cambridge by Edward Hulse in 1732 is probably the earliest documented example of this form of glass chandelier. Techniques of cutting were being developed and most chandeliers of this date feature a diamond-cut bowl, but the fact that the arms of the earliest glass chandeliers were not cut, indicates they were highly prized, and not risked on the cutting wheel until the following decade (M. Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Woodbridge, 2000, pp. 55-63, plates 12 & 17).