A REGENCY ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FOUR-LIGHT COLZA CHANDELIER

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A REGENCY ORMOLU AND PATINATED BRONZE FOUR-LIGHT COLZA CHANDELIER
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The lidded reeded baluster reservoir above a shaft decorated with scrolls and flowerheads and terminating in four nozzles decorated with bearded masks, with a foliate-wrapped fruited boss, with quadruple-chains suspension and stylised foliage-cast corona, fitted for electricity, originally fitted for colza oil, replacements to chain
46 in. (117 cm.) high, 32¾ in. (83 cm.) diameter

拍品专文

This chandelier with reeded vase embellished with festive bacchic heads and a thyrsus finial derives from Roman oil lamps as popularised by Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, and George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Funiture, 1808. Other lamps of a similar model were sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 2 - 3 December 2003, lot 506, Christie's, London, 15 September 2005, lot 43. The pattern corresponds to one introduced at Arlington Court, Devon, in the early 1820s (The National Trust, The Manual of Housekeeping, London, 2006, p. 663, fig. 58b) and to one sold Christie's, London, 14 July 1994, lot 129. Another signed by the Newport Street figure-maker and lamp manufacturer James Deville (d. 1846) and dated 1817 was almost certainly supplied for Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, and subsequently sold from The Humphrey Whitbread collection, Christie's, London, 5 April 2001, lot 385 (also illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, 1965, rev. ed., fig. 235).