EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY ORMOLU AND BRASS COLZA-OIL HANGING LIGHT
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
With foliate ceiling rose above a suspension chain and four arms, each with four later glass flambeaux shades, the underside with four bearded heads issuing from a central boss, originally with colza-oil fitment, one chain link damaged, one glass shade damaged, the interior cast with letter 'O'
24 in. (61 cm.) diameter; 26 in. (66 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The 'Roman' lamp is richly embellished in bas-relief with satyr masks and Bacchic 'thyrsus' cones in the early 19th century French or 'Louis Quatorze' fashion promoted by the architect J.B. Papworth (d. 1847). A design for a related Bacchic lamp features in his designs preserved at the Victoria & Albert Museum, and a number of his designs were issued in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, and reprinted in Ackermann's Architectural Hints, 1813. The coloured lamp design was printed with the entry for a related lamp sold from Clare College, Cambridge, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1979, lot 11.

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