A GEORGE III ORMOLU HALL LANTERN

18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE III ORMOLU HALL LANTERN
18th Early 19th Century
With the circular inverted dish canopy above a quadruple acanthus-scroll suspension, each glazed side with scrolled arched top and eared acanthus boss, with a door, the angles with concave glass panels, several glass plates replaced
15in. (39cm.) square; 33in. (84.5cm.) high, overall

Provenance

Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 18 November 1993, lot 14.

Sale room notice

The glass panel with a small crack and the missing curved panel are to be repaired by Christie's the week after the sale.

Lot Essay

Designed by Thomas Chippendale (d. 1789) in his French 'picturesque' style, its hollowed cut-corners feature paired and scroll-enriched pilasters, which are bound by acanthus-embossed cartouches and support triumphal-arched and serpentined pediments centred by similar cartouches with pendant husks. The pattern for this 'Lanthorn' was engraved in 1761 and published in Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd ed., 1762, pl. CLIII. However, in the engraving, the base-rail's asymmetrically-scrolled cartouches are represented the other way up.

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