A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ORMOLU TWO-LIGHT COLZA-OIL LAMPS

细节

A PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ORMOLU TWO-LIGHT COLZA-OIL LAMPS
Each with tripartite column with acanthus capital below two turned arms, each with turned folige nozzle drip-pan and reservoir, below an urn reservoir with a pair of lion masks and a pair of foliage wreaths below a lappeted stepped top and foliage finial, on a concave-sided tripartie base with winged lions, on a stepped plinth, on paw feet headed by scrolling foliage, each with an embossed plaque inscribed 'HANCOCK & RIXON 47, GT. MARLBOROUGH ST. REGENT ST. LONDON', one candelabra stamped to the base 'JB', one candelabra stamped '3' to various parts the other '4', fitted for electricity
33½ in. (85 cm.) high; 17½ in. (44 cm.) wide; 7 in. (17.5 cm.) deep (2)

来源

William, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (d. 1833) or his son Charles, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam (d. 1857) and by descent.

拍品专文

Hancock, Rixon and Dant were lamp and lustre manufacturers in London in the 1830s. They are recorded as supplying lights to St. James's Palace and to Windsor Castle in 1833, 1835 and 1840. Their address was not known to the compilers of The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1986, p. 393.
They are also credited with supplying a chandelier at Apsley House in J. Bourne and V. Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, London, 1991, p. 142, figs. 478-479.