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418
A BRASS SIX-LIGHT HALL LANTERN
20th century
The octagonal frame with clear bevelled
glass panels, beneath a double c-scroll open
cupola, the base with knopped terminals,
81cm high.

£600 - 800
€710 - 940

419
AN ART NOUVEAU COPPER, BRASS AND
VASELINE GLASS CEILING LIGHT
The stem with pierced flowerhead
embellishments above a lobed vaseline glass
shade, unmarked, 53cm high; together with
an Arts and Crafts brass set of wind chimes,
mounted on an honesty shaped oak plinth,
70cm high. (2)
418
£200 - 300
€240 - 350
420
A GILT BRONZE MOUNTED TABLE LAMP
Circa 1900
Formed as a Chinese style sang de bouef
vase with dragons and on pedestal base with
lion paw feet, 95cm high.
£300 - 500
€350 - 590

421
A PAIR OF REGENCY PATINATED
BRONZE COLZA RHYTON OIL LAMPS
The model by Thomas Messenger & Sons,
circa 1820
Each in the form of a boar’s head supporting
the reservoir above, on rectangular bases and
419 bun feet, later wired for electric, 30cm wide,
420 45cm high.
(2)

£600 - 800
€710 - 940

Although unsigned, these distinctive lamps are
closely related to a pair stamped Messenger
now in the Birmingham Museum and Art
Gallery. A further un-stamped ormolu pair
once owned by the Duke of Newcastle is
in the Leeds City Art Galleries at Temple
Newsam. The design originates from the
ancient rhyton of the sepulchral monument
to Augustus Urbanus on the Appian Way
in Rome, illustrated by G.B. Piranesi and
published in ‘Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi,
Sarcofagi...’(1778).

Thomas Messenger & Sons advertised as
‘Manufacturers of Chandeliers, Tripods and
Lamps of every description in bronze and
ormolu’. The rhyton features on the firm’s
trade-card of the 1830s (see C. Gilbert and A
Wells-Cole, The Fashionable Fire Place, 1660-
421 1840, Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 1985,
pp.145 and 140, fig. 95).

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