Lantern
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ebony
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Clandon Park, Surrey
NT 1440851.1.2
Summary
[Salvaged] Carved ebony wall bracket of one of two gilt metal hexagonal lanterns, presumably Venetian, with gold tops, surmounted by figures of children holding the flag of St. Mark, and supported by carved ebony wall brackets in the form of an arm with draped upper parts. Fixed to the east wall of the Marble Hall, positioned either side of the door to the Saloon.
Provenance
Marked in Lady Iveagh’s 1966 Inventory, p3; Accepted by the Treasury in lieu of Estate Duty on the death of Lady Iveagh in 1968 and transferred to the National Trust (1968 Schedule B)