AN IRISH WILLIAM IV ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT COLZA-OIL CHANDELIER

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AN IRISH WILLIAM IV ORMOLU FIVE-LIGHT COLZA-OIL CHANDELIER
With turned dished centre and foliate boss issuing five pierced foliage arms and five scrolling foliage trumpet-shaped branches, with scrolled foliate handles and foliate top, with five foliage-wrapped turned hanging-bars each with two serpentine snake hooks, with a foliage corona, fitted for electricity
36 in. (91 cm.) diam.

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A related chandelier with urn-capped tazza bowl and 'cornucopiae' branches suspended by foliated rods, features in a design by William Collins (listed in the Strand from 1808 to 1852) illustrated in 'Country House Lighting', Temple Newsam Country House Studies, no. 4, Leeds, 1992, no. 68. A related multi-urned chandelier, now at Spencer House, London, is illustrated in J. Bourne and V. Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, London, 1991, p. 132, no. 452.

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