PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF VULLIAMY

Details

A PAIR OF VICTORIAN ORMOLU LAMP BASES
PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF VULLIAMY
Fitted for electricity, with shades, re-gilt
20¾ in. (53 cm.) high, excluding shades (2)

Provenance

Acquired from Piers von Westenholz, London.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

A set of four Regency bronze oil-lamp bases of this model was supplied to Thomas Wentworth Beaumont (d. 1848) for Bretton Park, Yorkshire at the time he was aggrandising the house under the architect Jeffrey Wyatville. Interestingly, Messrs. Benjamin Vulliamy and Sons are known to have supplied metalwork 'designed by Mr Jeffry Wyat' for Bretton in 1813 (G. de Bellaigue, 'The Vulliamy's Chimney-Pieces', FHSJ, 1997, pp. 212-3).

More from A Town House in Mayfair

View All