A VICTORIAN ORMOLU HALL LANTERN

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A VICTORIAN ORMOLU HALL LANTERN

In the Rococo style and of bulb shape, with foliate scroll-suspension and tapering bowed sides and arched rockwork tops and rope-twist divisions and foliate boss, fitted for electricity
15¾in. (40cm.) high

Lot Essay

The design is based on pl. CLIII, 'Designs for Lanthorns', in Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd. ed., 1762. In their catalogue of circa 1900, Litchfield and Co. offered hall lanterns of this model in three sizes

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