Lot 226
A Regency patinated and gilt bronze hexagonal lantern
20 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £35,000 inc. premium
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A Regency patinated and gilt bronze hexagonal lantern
The six scrolling, arched supports headed by paterae, the pierced anthemion and leaf scroll crestings above panelled glazed sides with and anthemion spandrels and possibly replaced turquoise margin borders, the pierced gothic fret apron with anthemion and palm-frond brackets at each corner; together with a later leaf-cast ceiling hook mount and later central five branch light, 58cm wide, 100cm high (22.5in wide, 39in high).
Footnotes
Provenance:
Probably Hengrave Hall, Suffolk.
Probably acquired by the present owner's family in the Knight Frank & Rutley, Hengrave Hall contents sale of 15th-18th September 1952.
Hengrave Hall was completed in 1538 for Thomas Kitson, a London merchant. The house was altered by the Gage family in 1775 and in 1899 Sir John Wood attempted to restore the interior of the house to its original Tudor appearance. Following his death in 1951 it was sold to the Religious of the Assumption, who ran a convent school at Hengrave until 1974 when it formed the Hengrave Community until it dissolved in 2005 and the hall was sold.
A closely related lantern with corresponding red glass margins, sold Sotheby's Nosely Hall, Leicestershire, 28-20 September 1998, lot 168.