A REGENCY BRASS EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIER

CIRCA 1810

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A REGENCY BRASS EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIER
circa 1810
The central shaft with gadrooned baluster above a waisted gadrooned section with plain band, above a spherical body issuing eight scrolling and foliate branches terminating in dished circular drip-pans and slender urn-shaped nozzles, above a tapering lower section with stylized pine-cone finial, electrified
38in. (96.5cm) high, 44in. (112cm.) diameter

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A related brass chandelier with twenty-four branches, signed and dated 'Westcott 1809', which just possibly might indicate a donor rather than a maker, is in the church of St. Peter and St. Paul, North Curry, Somerset, and is illustrated in R. Gentle & R, Feild, English Domestic Brass, 1975, p. 144, fig. 128.