This oil lamp is designed in the early 19th Century antique manner, popularised by the connoisseur Thomas Hope in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807. The lantern's reeded bowl terminates in a festive thyrsus finial, while its rim is embellished with bacchic and satyr-masks between palmette-wrapped Roman lamp nozzles, that relate closely to that of a lantern pattern in an archive of the work of the London and Liverpool cabinet-maker George Bullock (d. 1818) (see George Bullock, Blairman's Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1988, fig. 10). A hanging-lamp of very closely related design, undoubtedly executed by the same hand and supplied to Paul Cobb Metheun (d. 1816) for Corsham Court, Wiltshire, is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London 1965, p. 98, fig. 235. It is interesting to note, therefore, that James Wyatt was involved in the remodelling of Corsham Court in the early 19th Century. A related hanging-lamp remains at Tatton Park, Cheshire, while another is illustrated in situ in the Brown Parlour at Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire, in H.A. Tipping, English Homes, London 1920, period IV, vol. 1, p. 155