A PAIR OF REGENCY PATINATED BRONZE AND FAUX-PORPHYRY ARGAND LAMPS
THE PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR (LOTS 118-125)
A PAIR OF REGENCY PATINATED BRONZE AND FAUX-PORPHYRY ARGAND LAMPS

CIRCA 1815

細節
A PAIR OF REGENCY PATINATED BRONZE AND FAUX-PORPHYRY ARGAND LAMPS
Circa 1815
Each with two arms issuing from a central urn and cover molded with a lion's mask, on columnar simulated porphyry support with circular bronze foot and later square wooden base, fitted for electricity
40in. (102cm.) high, 14in. (36cm.) wide (2)
來源
Anon.sale, Sotheby's New York, 1 October 1994, lot 125 ($17,250).

拍品專文

The bronze colza-oil lamp, conceived as a festive urn-capped altar pillar, features a bacchic thyrsus-finial and lion-masked wine krater standing on a truncated column of Egyptian simulated porphyry. This burning vase form derives from an enraving of an antique cinerary vase or urn dedicated to William Constable in G.B. Piranesi's 'Vasi...'.

A related lamp, executed in the antique manner popularised around 1810 by the London firm of Messrs B. Vulliamy & Sons, was supplied for Hopetoun House, Edinburgh by the Oil Men Smiths and Co, who had established premises in Blair Street, Edinburgh in 1770 and traded in lamps of every description (sold Christie's Hopetoun House sale 19, July 1993, lot 124). Such lamps are named Argand lamps after the 1780s invention of the Argand burner by Ami Argand (d.1803).