Lamp
Category
Historic Services / Lighting
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass and glass
Measurements
585 x 180 x 180 mm
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533188.1
Summary
A brass, two-light, gothic, ormolu electric table standard on a square base. T bar shaped stand with fluted sections and leaf decoration protruding, topped by a decorated urn with leaf finial. It features two matt glass globes which are screwed in. The square base is decorated with roses, the base is sitting on with winged dogs Believed to have been acquired in 1824 from Hancock & Rixon in London, which would indicate that they would have originally been fuelled by Colza oil. Glass globes are not believed to be original, photos exist with flamed shape glass in place. One of a pair of oil lamps which are part of a larger set (two in library, two large lamps in the Dining Room NT 533187). These lamps are the smallest of the set.
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.