Hanging light

James Deville (active 1817 - died 1846)

Gawthorpe Hall

1817

A Regency Colza oil hanging light with six arms with foliate and shell mounts interspersed with lion masks. The reservoir has a harvest fruits band and is surmounted by an eagle. Fitted for electricity with six later glass shades.

• Medium: bronze, ormolu & glass
• Dimensions: 134.5 x 96.5cm
• Art Fund Grant: £47784 ( Total: £110,569; Export stopped)
• ArtFunded in: 2001
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

Probably acquire for Gawthorpe Hall by Robert Shuttleworth, thence by descent to Lord Shuttleworth; sold from Gawthorpe in late 1940s; Collection of Humphrey Whitbread from 1951.

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