Chandelier
Category
Historic Services / Lighting
Date
circa 1830
Materials
Ormolu and frosted glass
Measurements
890 x 690 mm
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871605
Summary
Ormolu 3-light chandelier, originally designed to burn colza oil. Fitted with English paraffin oil lamps about the end of the 19th century. Lamps complete with frosted glass shades and holders, lamp chimneys etc. Oil light
Provenance
At Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Estate Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to NT in 1957.