Wall lantern
Category
Metalwork
Date
circa 1760
Materials
Gilt sheet metal, glass, copper alloy, mirror glass
Measurements
107 x 51 cm
Place of origin
England
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Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959847.1
Summary
A wall lantern or light, one of a rare pair of gilt sheet metal, copper alloy and glass wall lanterns, English, circa 1760. Topped by a pagoda smoke shade on four curving supports and issuing small copper alloy bells. The lantern with mirrored back and glazed sides and front, topped by a pierced gallery.The lantern above a frieze of Chinoiserie paling. Issuing pendant finials at each corner and with an interlaced riband backplate terminating in a sunburst. -- Illustrated by Percy Macquoid in 1908, and believed to be part of the original furnishings at Nostell Priory, although no purchase is recorded. Thereafter, the bells to the pagodas became detached. The lanterns were restored by the National Trust in 2005 with the financial support of the Friends of Nostell. The new bells were commissioned from the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but by descent and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of death duties on the estate of Rowland Winn, 4th Baron Oswald (1916 - 1984), 1986.
References
Macquoid, Percy, A History of English Furniture: The Age of Satinwood (1908)