Lot 496
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A pair of George IV bronze colza oil table lamps
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A pair of George IV bronze colza oil table lamps

MESSENGER & PHIPSON

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A pair of George IV bronze colza oil table lamps
Messenger & Phipson
In the form of an antique Rhyton, the single branches issuing from a boar's head, with applied stamped label MILLERS PATENT. 179. PICCADILLY. NO 6. 6588, the cornucopiae shaped wells each with a scroll handle, on rectangular stop-fluted and leaf capped angle bases, stamped to the undersides MESSENGER & PHIPSON (one stamped twice), adaptations
11in. (28cm.) long, 10¾in. (27.3cm.) high overall (2)
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Lot Essay

Messenger and Phipson were among the numerous manufacturers of lighting, operating in the brass-founding trade in Birmingham and Wolverhampton and highly productive during the 1830's.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Christopher Gilbert, Country House Lighting 1660-1890, Temple Newsam Country House Studies. No.4. A similar lamp design is discussed on page 145, item 121, with reference to a pair stamped Messenger in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Martin Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Antique Collector's Club, 2000, page 32, illustration 32, shows another alternative table lamp made by Messenger and Phipson, with reference made in the text on page 162.

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