ATTRIBUTED TO PARKER AND PERRY

细节

A GEORGE III ORMOLU AND CUT-GLASS EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIER
Attributed to Parker and Perry
The pierced trefoill suspension ring above a domed canopy hung with pendant swags and faceted drops, the baluster shaft with lozenge-cut decoration and central spirally-fluted domed urn with entrelac and rosette ormolu collar above a further faceted and lozenge-cut tapering shaft, the lozenge-cut dished bowl with a further entrelac and rosette collar issuing eight faceted serpentine branches of attenuated S-form with lapetted and scalloped drip-pans and urn-form nozzles with lapetted tops hung with faceted drops and with garlanded drops below, above a tapering part-hobnail cut stem with further domed canopy with pendant drops and faceted tapering boss finial, restorations and replacements, marked overall with letters
44 in. (111.8 cm.) high; 30 in. (76.2 cm.) diameter, approx.

来源

The collection of S. Eckman, Jr., Esq., C.B.E., of The Old Rectory, Little Bookham and 1, Wilton Crescent, London, sold Sotheby's London, 6 October 1967, lot 58 (2000 gns. to Norman Adams).
Bought from Norman Adams, 1977.

出版

C. Claxton Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, rev.ed., 1985, pg. 473

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品专文

This distinctive arm pattern, with double-curved candle-arm and scalloped nozzle have been identified by Martin Mortimer as charcteristic of the oeuvre of Messrs. Parker and Perry (The English Glass Chandelier, Woddbridge, 2000, p.19, pls.10, 48 and 53-55). Founded by William Parker (d.1784), the business flourished and in 1817 his son finally entered into a formal partnership with the Perry family (they eventually merged to become Perry & Co. in 1820). Messrs. Parker and Perry enjoyed the patronage of King and Court, ranging from George, Prince of Wales to William Beckford; indeed in George Perry's own words of 1835 he boasted We trust that our having made the greater part of the lustres for the late King, and our being now employed in making those for the new Palace of his present Majesty (William IV), will be some guarantee for the character of our Manufacture. Amongst the best documented Parker commissions is that of the Dukes of Devonshire for both Chatsworth, circa 1782-3, and Devonshire House, London in the 1820's and 1830's.

A closely related 20-light chandelier with ten glass spires, originally suppplied to the Earl of Lincoln for Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire and subsequently owned by Nancy Lancaster at both Kelmarsh Hall and Ditchley Park, is discussed in Mortimer, op. cit., p.103, whilst a directly comparable chandelier is in the Winterthur Museum (ibid., col.pls. 10-11). A further example, reputedly made for the Russian market and also subsequently bought by Nancy Lancaster for Ditchley Park, was sold by the Administrators of Polly Peck International, Phillips London, 12 February 1991, lot 137 (£126,500).