Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets

A monumental pair of glass floor lamps for the Indian market, Bohemia, circa 1900

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Auction Closed

March 31, 12:40 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

each comprised of twelve branches across two levels with a further centre shaft, bearing petal-cut candle cups and pans and green glass storm shades with gold details decorated with Mughal motifs, dressed all over with green and clear glass spearheaded drops and plaquette pendants, standing on a central stem composed of glass baluster elements decorated with gold scrolls on white enamel ground, two further registers of green and clear glass drops on glass canopies giving the effect of a fountain, on hexagonal marble base, light fixtures not wired

each: 245cm. approx. height

each: 90cm. max. diam.

Bonhams London, 7 October 2014, lot 294.

This magnificent pair of floor lamps is evocative of the taste for grandeur and opulence among the princely families of India in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Similar chandeliers of extravagant size and form with decorative details in the 'Mughal style' were commissioned from European glass manufacturers for palaces throughout the princely states of India in the twilight years of the British Raj. A similar pair of hanging chandeliers were sold in these rooms, 23 May 2006, The Indian Sale, lot 62.