A REGENCY BRASS AND CUT-GLASS TWELVE-LIGHT CHANDELIER, the acanthus corona above three graduated tazzas hung with cascading drops and needles, the spreading circular body above a lozenge-rim issuing eleven S-scroll branches, each with reeded drip-pan and lozenge-cut baluster-nozzle, above a cascading needle tapering base and ball boss, one arm broken, minor losses, fitted for electricity

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A REGENCY BRASS AND CUT-GLASS TWELVE-LIGHT CHANDELIER, the acanthus corona above three graduated tazzas hung with cascading drops and needles, the spreading circular body above a lozenge-rim issuing eleven S-scroll branches, each with reeded drip-pan and lozenge-cut baluster-nozzle, above a cascading needle tapering base and ball boss, one arm broken, minor losses, fitted for electricity
39in. (99cm.) wide; 65½in. (166.5cm.) high
Provenance
Almost certainly supplied to Thomas Langford-Brooke (d.1815)

Lot Essay

Designed in the early 19th Century antique manner, and surmounted by an ormolu corona of palm and acanthus leaves above a triple tier of tazzas with drops and stalactites, the general form of this chandelier relates to a pattern supplied to Napoleon I by the cabinet-maker and house-furnisher George Bullock (d. 1818) of London and Lancaster (see George Bullock, Blairman's Exhibition Catalogue, London 1988, fig. 10)

This '12 light cut glass chandelier' is recorded in the Second Drawing Room in the 1840 Inventory

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