A REGENCY BRONZE THREE-LIGHT HALL LANTERN

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A REGENCY BRONZE THREE-LIGHT HALL LANTERN
Of glazed hexagonal form with a door, the scrolling supports terminating in dolphin masks and flanked by scallop shell and scrolling foliage, the mirrored base plate with surrounding pierced floral apron, on inverted thrysus finial feet, fitted for electricity, the light fittings later
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 14 in. (37 cm.) diam.

来源

The Hon. Ernest Guinness, D.L. (+), Holmbury House, Dorking, Surrey; Phillips house sale, 12-14 November 1952, lot 684.

拍品专文

The lantern is embellished in the early 19th Century French antique manner with Venus shell badge displayed on the cornice amongst triuphal palm-scrolls framed by embowed dolphins, while Bacchic palm-wrapped thrysus finials emerge from the fretted base which is flowered with roses and thistles. A lantern of similar style was supplied for Burton Constable, Yorkshire, in 1832 by William Collins, who was established in The Strand in 1808. In 1837 he supplied a magnificent brass chandelier, embellished with roses and thistles for the Guildhall, illustrated in Temple Newsam House, Country House Studies No. 4, 'Country House Lighting', 1992, p.73, fig. 35. A similar one was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 19 December 1987, lot 66.