FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ANTIQUE

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AN ITALIAN BRONZE HANGING OIL LAMP
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE ANTIQUE
With ring suspension above a foliate dome with four chains, suspending an oil lamp with central burner, on spreading circular foot
23½ in. (60 cm.) high overall; 10¼ in. (26 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This oil lamp is inspired by Antique Roman prototypes, such as that acquired by the collector/connoisseur Charles Townley, which was published amongst the folio of Townley Drawings in 1814. Now in the British Museum, it is published in D. Bailey, A Catalogue of the Lamps in the British Museum IV, London, 1996, pl.184, Q3786. A related 'fancy Pendant Cockspur Lamp' appears in Frederick Accum's A Practical Treatise on Gas Light of 1815; Accum was an 'operative chemist' whose gas system lit R. Ackermann's own premises in the Strand ('Country House Lighting', Exhibition Catalogue, 1992, p.99, pl.IV).

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