Lot Essay
A similar hall lantern was sold by Lord McAlpine, West Green House, Hampshire, Sotheby's house sale, 16 May 1990, lot 224. Another, possibly the same, is illustrated in B. Gentle & D. Feild, English Domestic Brass, Woodbridge, rev. ed., 1994, p. 134, no. 94 and J. Bourne and V. Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, London, 1991, p. 45, no. 122