A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS SIXTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIERS

CIRCA 1820

Details

A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS SIXTEEN-LIGHT CHANDELIERS
Circa 1820
Each hung with two tiers of lustre chains and issuing two tiers of scrolling foliate-cast candlearms with scalloped and ribbed nozzles and pendant lustres, suspended from chains, the corona draped with further lustre chains swagged with circular ribbed medallions
69in. (175cm.) high, 36in. (92cm.) diameter approximately (2)

Provenance

Probably supplied to Robert Cotton St. John Rowle, 18th Baron Clinton for Bicton, Devonshire
By descent to Charles, 21st Baron and sold Sotheby's London, 9 July 1954, lots 90 and 91
Acquired by George, 12th Earl of Haddington for Tyninghame, East Lothian, Scotland
By descent to John, 13th Earl of Haddington, sold on the premises, Sotheby's, 28-29 September 1987, lot 112

Lot Essay

This pair was likely to have been acquired for Bicton by Robert Cotton St. John Rowle, 18th Baron Clinton (d. 1832) and Lord of the Bedchamber to King George III sometime after his marriage in 1814. Lord Clinton was clearly refurbishing the house at this time as a Charles Cole, a local carver from Exeter, supplied a set of four elaborately carved giltwood torcheres in 1826. The torcheres were surmounted by exceptionally fine cut-glass candelabra of the same quality of these chandeliers. The four torcheres and candelabra were sold in these Rooms, 22 April 1989, lots 143 and 144.