BY WILLIAM COLLINS, 1814

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A REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED FROSTED-GLASS HANGING LIGHT
BY WILLIAM COLLINS, 1814
The corona with applied hunting horns, pairs of foxes and anthemia, the bulbous bowl depicting a fox pursued through fields by hounds and huntsmen, formerly signed W.Collins, 1814, and with an anthemion and greek key band and foliate pendant, damages, the glass cracked, decoration worn and the signature now lacking
15 in. (38 cm.) high; 21½ in. (55 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Edward Medlicott, Esq., Sacombe Park, Hertfordshire; Christie's house sale, 11 October, 1993, lot 138.
Sir Paul Getty, K.B.E. and by descent.

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Lot Essay

Although now apparently lacking a signature, this dish-light is the earliest recorded work of the light-manufacturer William Collins of 227, The Strand (fl.1808-1852) who is best known for his work at Northumberland House for the Duke of Northumberland, a commission which spanned seventeen years. Among the self-descriptions used on papers in the Northumberland archive is one from 1822: 'Glass Enameller Glass Manufacturer to the King and to the Royal Family' which presumably refers to the technique used here. He is also known to have supplied fittings to Bath House, Piccadilly, and a pair of torcheres from that commission, signed and dated 1823, are now in the Bowes Museum, Co. Durham.

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