Lot 75
75
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more
A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV BRASS LAMPS

CIRCA 1835, IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM BULLOCK

Details
A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV BRASS LAMPS
CIRCA 1835, IN THE MANNER OF WILLIAM BULLOCK
Each with foliate nozzles and triple cluster columns, the spreading base with masks and claw feet, now fitted for electricity
20¾ in. (53 cm.) high excluding fitments; (2)
Provenance
Humphrey Whitbread Esq., by whom given to the Knight of Glin on his marriage in 1970.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

If you wish to view the condition report of this lot, please sign in to your account.

Sign in
View condition report

Lot Essay

These lamps, with their bacchic lion-footed 'altar' pedestals whose theatrical masks relate to those illustrated in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. 37), are in the manner of the Liverpool sculptor William Bullock (d. 1836). Bullock took out a patent for a pair of cassolette with similar bases in 1805 and basalt versions were executed at the Liverpool 'Herculaneum' pottery.

More from Glin Castle - A Knight in Ireland

View All
View All