Lot 92
92
A LARGE FRENCH ORMOLU LANTERN, of circular form, with a scrolled corona above four fluted scrolled supports each with central baluster and acanthus decoration, the lantern with an egg-and-dart moulded overhanging rim surmounted by four stylised foliate finials, the glazed sides with ribbon-tied beaded festoons, the lower part with a pierced baluster gallery, with four lights suspended from a plain shaft, the scrolled branches with circular fluted drip-pans and turned nozzles, with four fruit finials,second half 19th Century

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A LARGE FRENCH ORMOLU LANTERN, of circular form, with a scrolled corona above four fluted scrolled supports each with central baluster and acanthus decoration, the lantern with an egg-and-dart moulded overhanging rim surmounted by four stylised foliate finials, the glazed sides with ribbon-tied beaded festoons, the lower part with a pierced baluster gallery, with four lights suspended from a plain shaft, the scrolled branches with circular fluted drip-pans and turned nozzles, with four fruit finials,second half 19th Century
31½in. (80cm.) diameter; 56¾in. (144.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

The design of this lantern is based on that of a very distinguished group of Louis XVI examples of which the closest and best known is in the Wrightsman Collection at the Metropolitian Museum, New York (see: F. J. B. Watson, Furniture, Boxes, New York, 1970, Vol. III, p. 67, No. 304). A lantern lacking the ribbon swags is in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch at Bowhill, Selkirk.
A smaller example was sold at Christie's House Sale, Sacombe Park, Hertfordshire, 11 October 1993, lot 1.

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