Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - Day 2 - 30th June 2022
Lot 411
A GEORGE IV ORMOLU AND GLASS SIX-LIGHT DISH LIGHT
Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £3000
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Description
A GEORGE IV ORMOLU AND GLASS SIX-LIGHT DISH LIGHT
C.1825 AND LATER
the later circular lozenge cut-dish with an urn, decorated with vine draped ram's masks and a cone finial, issuing six arms, the gallery with palmettes and hung from a conforming corona by three chains, with a sphere and leaf pendant base
124.5cm high, 76.7cm diameter
Provenance
Partridge Fine Art, London
A Private Collection, California, USA.
Catalogue Note
A similar light is in the Yellow Drawing Room at Harewood House, Yorkshire, illustrated in Eileen Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam, fig. 205. another example is illustrated in Jonathan Bourne and Vanessa Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, p.134, fig. 453.