A MID-VICTORIAN BLUE JOHN-MOUNTED LACQUERED-BRASS LECTERN

CIRCA 1870

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A MID-VICTORIAN BLUE JOHN-MOUNTED LACQUERED-BRASS LECTERN
CIRCA 1870
The eagle-form rest on an engraved shaft with protruding bands mounted with cabochons and spreading base with ball-inset band on claw-and-ball feet, indistinct chalk inscription to underside 'HS.../.../B...'
65.1/2 in. (166 cm.) high; the rest: 28.1/2 in. (72 cm) wide

Literature

Wynyard Park inventory, 1886, vol. ii, p. 510, the chapel ‘ very handsome brass lectern with onyx mounts surmounted by an eagle’.
Wynyard Park inventory, 1956, p. 97, chapel.
Wynyard Park inventory, 1965, vol. i, p. 61, chapel.

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Lot Essay

The chapel at Wynyard Park seems to have been the most frequently
remodeled part of the house during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
There is reference in the Londonderry papers work being carried out on
the chapel at Wynyard in 1871 and to ‘alterations’ being carried out to
both the chapel and Londonderry House by one James Brooks, architect,
in 1881-83. It is most likely that it was during one of these phases that this
lectern was introduced along with the closely related brass railing, which
remains in situ in the chapel today.

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