AFTER THE MODEL BY FRANCIS HARDENBERG

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A SET OF TEN BLACK-PAINTED RESIN FIGURAL LAMPS
AFTER THE MODEL BY FRANCIS HARDENBERG
Each on a spirally-fluted pedestal, after Coade, impressed 'COADE LAMBETH 1794', the figures fitted for electricity with frosted glass flaming shades
78 ¼ in. (199 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

The present resin model of lamp-bearing vestal is after a set of ten bronzed plaster lamps supplied by Francis Hardenberg of Mount Street for the Chapel at Burghley House, listed in the 1804 Inventory (p. 17, no. 35) 'ten bronzed vestal figures on pedestals with patent lamps'. (Burghley House archive Ex.MSS.51\41\8).

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