Lot Essay
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.