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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PHILIP JONES, CLERMONT HALL, NORFOLK (LOTS 251-258)
The Norfolk house originally built by Lord Clermont as a shooting box around 1775-77 was probably designed by Sir Robert Taylor (d.1788). The house shows similarities in its floor plan with the Deepdene in Surrey, the country house by Thomas Hope, so it is appropriate that Clermont was extended and remodelled in 1812 as a Regency villa by the 2nd Viscount Clermont, who added the stucco cladding. After the Viscount's death in 1829 the estate passed to indirect descendants, but it was soon for sale, and in 1858 Clermont was bought by the 2nd Duke of Wellington. Over the next century the estate was sold thrice and then fell into disrepair, at which point it was considered for demolition. Fortunately the house was listed, and in 1973 was bought by Philip Jones, the Slade-trained painter who acted as his own decorator and head-gardener, and hung the walls with his own immediately recognizable paintings, which occupied a middle ground somewhere between Romantic landscape and free-form abstraction. Unsurprisingly, he had a wonderful eye, and with his wife and growing family he created a classic country-house interior that belies Clermont's chequered history.
A WILLIAM IV BRONZE THREE-LIGHT HANGING COLZA LAMP
CIRCA 1835
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A WILLIAM IV BRONZE THREE-LIGHT HANGING COLZA LAMP
CIRCA 1835
With a central urn above a shallow dish with foliate clasps and three loop handles, issuing three lotus branches and with a foliate pendant, fitted for electricity, and a Regency Bronze three-light hanging Colza lamp, circa 1815, fitted for electricity
19 in. (49 cm.) high; 29½ in. (75 cm.) diameter and
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 21 in (54 cm.) diameter (2)
CIRCA 1835
With a central urn above a shallow dish with foliate clasps and three loop handles, issuing three lotus branches and with a foliate pendant, fitted for electricity, and a Regency Bronze three-light hanging Colza lamp, circa 1815, fitted for electricity
19 in. (49 cm.) high; 29½ in. (75 cm.) diameter and
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 21 in (54 cm.) diameter (2)
Brought to you by
Elizabeth Wight
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