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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE LAMPS
Lot 155

A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE LAMPS

CIRCA 1830-40

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GBP 10,755

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A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BRONZE LAMPS
CIRCA 1830-40
Each with a foliage-clasped column on a triform base with masks, on claw feet, converted to electricity and now on later ebonised stands
62 in. (157 cm.) high, excluding fitments (2)

Specialist note

The colza-oil lamps' vase-capped tripods are conceived as 'Roman candelabra' in the antique manner promoted around 1800 by the connoisseur Thomas Hope, while similar 'Drawing Room Candelabri' are illustrated in George Smith's, Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808 (pl.113). Such candelabra were a speciality of Benjamin Vulliamy, 'Furniture Man' to George, Prince of Wales, later future George 1V and related candelabra at Brighton Pavilion are dated 1807 and inscribed 'Designed and Executed by Vulliamy & Son' (R.Smith, Vulliamy and the Kinnaird candelabra', Apollo, 1997, pp 30-34).