Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812 - 1852) for Messrs John Hardman & Co.

brass with painted decoration and glass, the upper tier cast with leaf motifs and inscribed 'SANCTUS SANCTUS SANCTUS', the lower tier supporting six sconces and applied with red and pale blue cabochons

A large and impressive piece of good overall appearance. There is some wear to the surface of the metal and the painted decoration consistent with age. The cabochons are arranged in such a way that some sections are applied with two and others with four.
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Drawings of similar examples appear in a mid-19th century John Hardman catalogue in the collection of Paul Reeves (p. 41, illustrated below). A closely related corona lucis with lobed sides was made for the library of Pugin's 1844 residence at The Grange, Ramsgate, Kent, which his son Peter Paul illustrated in a sketch of 1868, and a further three-tiered example appears in Pugin's 1844 sketches of ecclesiastical ornament (Megan Aldrich et al, A.W.N. Pugin, Master of Gothic Revival, New York, 1995, pp. 180-181, 316).