CIRCA 1775 - 90

The lantern, of typical tapering form, displays nymphs and anthemion at its upper corners. Similar figures feature on the 'Exceedingly large Brass Hall Lanthorn’ that Thomas Chippendale (d.1779) supplied in 1774 at a cost of £100. Christopher Gilbert notes that passages and stairs at Harewood are illuminated by lanterns decorated with ram’s heads, husk chains, paterae and anthemion 'in a manner consistent with Chippendale’s authorship’ (C.Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London 1978, vol. I p. 199, and vol. II, pp. 142 – 144, figs. 255 – 260).