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拍品專文
This golden chandleier, with foliated candle-branches enriched with Arcadian reed-gadroons and rising from a 'krater-vase', reflects the George II 'Roman' manner promoted by the Rome-trained architect James Gibbs (d.1754), author of A Book of Architecture, 1728, and Surveyor to the Commissioners for Building Fifty New Churches in London. The brass-founder James Giles, supplier of brass chandeliers to St. Dionis, Backchurch, London, and to the church at Framlingham, Suffolk, has been credited with a large chandelier now at Temple Newsam and originally from Cheltenham Parish Church. The latter has a slightly more elaborate version of the pattern of arm on this lot, including the scrolls at either end. It was given to the church in 1738 and is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol. I, no. 117, pp. 113-115. The final piece of evidence to support an attribution to Giles is an identical chandelier, save for its more pear-shaped boss, in its original setting in a church in Kingston, Jamaica, that is dated 1749 and was apparently supplied by him.
A simple three-branch chandelier of very similar form is illustrated in R. Gentle and R. Feild, English Domestic Brass, London, 1975, fig. 122. Another related twenty-four branch chandelier was presented in 1757 to the Royal Bridewell Hospital and was subsequently sold, 10 July 1987, lot 21.
See also the footnote to lot 112 in this sale.
A simple three-branch chandelier of very similar form is illustrated in R. Gentle and R. Feild, English Domestic Brass, London, 1975, fig. 122. Another related twenty-four branch chandelier was presented in 1757 to the Royal Bridewell Hospital and was subsequently sold, 10 July 1987, lot 21.
See also the footnote to lot 112 in this sale.