A GEORGE III STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT-GLASS EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIER

PARTLY COMPOSED OF 19TH CENTURY ELEMENTS

细节

A GEORGE III STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED CUT-GLASS EIGHT-LIGHT CHANDELIER
partly composed of 19th century elements
The hob-nail urn-form stem with further shaped elements with ormolu-cast band centering rosettes within circles surmounted by a scalloped corona, the tapering base issuing eight faceted candlearms with scalloped drip-pans and nozzles with similar scalloped umbrella with faceted ball finial with similar ormolu band, hung allover with cut-glass chains and oval pendants, electrified
50in. (127cm.) high, 28in. (71cm.) diameter

来源

Bought from Frank Partridge & Sons, Ltd., London in 1958

拍品专文

The identical ormolu-mounted urn-form stem and bowl, and plain faceted arms feature on a chandelier at Clandon Park, Surrey (illustrated in O.Brackett, An Encyclopaedia of English Furniture, 1927, p.275). Another with these same ormolu-banded elements is illustrated in H.P.Bacot, Nineteenth Century Lighting, 1987, p.237, fig.340. A further example with this feature from Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire is illustrated in L.Synge, Great English Furniture, 1991, p.217, fig.252 and was sold from the Polly Peck Collection, Phillips, London, 19 February 1991, lot 137.