Lot 2
2
The Property of
A REGENCY ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT HALL LANTERN with six glazed sides, one with door, headed by anthemia flanked by lotus-leaves on the angles each issuing a scrolled arm joined at the top, with the later shaft with four arms each with fluted nozzle, fitted for electricity, on bun feet, with glass base

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A REGENCY ORMOLU FOUR-LIGHT HALL LANTERN with six glazed sides, one with door, headed by anthemia flanked by lotus-leaves on the angles each issuing a scrolled arm joined at the top, with the later shaft with four arms each with fluted nozzle, fitted for electricity, on bun feet, with glass base
50 x 32in. (127 x 81.5cm.)

Lot Essay

Designed in the early 19th Century 'Grecian' manner, the scrolled palm acroteria and palmette frieze ornament derive from the Corinthian capital of the Temple of Jupiter and the Erechtheum frieze illustrated in James Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, 1762. A related Grecian hall-lantern with a central four branch colza-oil urn is illustrated in the early 19th Century trade catalogue of G. A. Glick (J. Bourne, Lighting, 1991, London, fig. 445)

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