EARLY 20TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY LENYGON & CO.

The present pair of chandeliers and wall-mounted hanging chandelier en suite, were almost certainly supplied by the firm of Lenygon & Co., Interior Decorators, of 31 Old Burlington Street. The firm, regarded in their day as a model for the modern 'interior decorator', had a number of important aristocratic and wealthy clients and patrons including the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Pembroke and W.H. Lever, later Lord Leverhulme for whom they provided a complete decorating service and supplied antique and high quality copies of Georgian furniture and works of art. The present pair of chandeliers are after a pair of silver chandeliers in the 'Colonnade Rooms' at Knole Park, Kent, and similar copies by Lenygon & Co. sold in The Leverhulme Collection, Thornton Manor, Wirral, Merseyside; Sotheby's, 26-27 June 2001, lots 59-61.