A PAIR OF GEORGE III CUT-GLASS, GILT-DECORATED BLUE GLASS AND BRASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA

ATTRIBUTED TO PARKER AND PERRY, CIRCA 1795-1800

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III CUT-GLASS, GILT-DECORATED BLUE GLASS AND BRASS TWO-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ATTRIBUTED TO PARKER AND PERRY, CIRCA 1795-1800
Each with concaved cobalt glass base and incurved plinth supporting four scrolling arms and a spire with urn finial, hung allover with pendant chains, on ball feet, one cobalt glass base repaired
26 in. (66 cm.) high, 14½ in. (37 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

[Possibly] with The Incurable Collector, Inc., New York (advertised in The Connoisseur, January 1973, p. 64).

Lot Essay

In 1781, William Parker (d.1784) received a patent for candelabra bases of this form. A drawing supplied by Parker for the assembly of one such candelabrum is preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and illustrated in M. Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2000, p. 98, pl. 44. A set of four elaborate candelabra mounted on similar gilt green glass bases was delivered by the firm in 1782 to the 5th Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth (op. cit., p. 97, pl. 43) while a closely related pair to the offered lot is illustrated, p. 96, pl. 42. William Parker's son entered into partnership with the Perry family, to become Parker and Perry in 1802-03 and later Perry & Co. in circa 1820, the prolific chandelier firm who received the patronage of the Royal family.

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