Lantern
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Iron, Glass, Tin-plated steel
Measurements
610 x 230 mm
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1333619
Summary
Square lantern, iron with glass panels, upper corners supporting vases of flowers, crown finial to the top. Brass flowers hanging from lower corners, and a funnel shape hanging below centre.In notebook no.4, page 22 (1340945.4) Charles Wade refers to: 'Anns Room 55. Venetian Lantern of iron with angle turrets finished with pots of flowers, pierced curved top to lantern finished with gilded crown. fr. Little Compton Manor.'
Provenance
purchased from Little Compton Manor Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 4 First and Second Floor, 1944, page 22