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A Regency cut-glass and gilt-bronze twelve light chandelier circa 1815, attributed to Hancock, Shepherd and Rixon
Description
- glass, brass
- 165cm. high, 96.5cm. diam.; 5ft. 5in., 3ft. 2in.
Condition
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Catalogue Note
In the 1830s when they were known as Hancock and Rixon they supplied `One 4-light gold coloured antique lamp' for St James`s Palace at a cost of £12 on 29 June 1833 and on 31 December 1835 they were recorded in the Windsor account books as having supplied four large chandeliers for the Grand Reception rooms at Windsor at a cost of £92 7s 1d (cf Geoffrey Beard and Christopher Gilbert (eds.), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840, 1986, p.393 and illustrated in Hugh Roberts, For The King`s Pleasure, The Furnishing and Decoration of George IV`s Apartments at Windsor Castle, 2001, pp.129-130, figs.142 and 143.
Related examples to the present lot can be seen at Saltram House, Plymouth, illustrated in Eileen Harris, The Genius of Robert Adam, His Interiors, 2001, pl.350, p. 235. For further comparison see Sotheby`s London, Important English Furniture, 22nd November 2006, lot 303.