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Lot Essay
The branches 'Apollo' frames, comprising the sun and poetry deity's palm-flowered and laurel-festooned lyre, revive the French/antique style associated with George III's court architect Robert Adam (d.1792).
George Parker entered into partnership with the Perry family in 1817, Parker and Perry eventually merging to become Perry & Co. circa 1820. Amongst the most successful, inventive and prolific lighting manufacturers of the 19th century, Perry & Co. enjoyed the patronage of the great and the good, including George, Prince of Wales and William Beckford. In George Perry's own words of 1835, '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'. By 1900, Messrs Perry & Co. were trading in Grafton Street as 'Electric Light Fitters'.
George Parker entered into partnership with the Perry family in 1817, Parker and Perry eventually merging to become Perry & Co. circa 1820. Amongst the most successful, inventive and prolific lighting manufacturers of the 19th century, Perry & Co. enjoyed the patronage of the great and the good, including George, Prince of Wales and William Beckford. In George Perry's own words of 1835, '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'. By 1900, Messrs Perry & Co. were trading in Grafton Street as 'Electric Light Fitters'.