A Pair of Regency Patinated Bronze Colza Lamps modelled by J. De Ville, Circa 1815
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Description
each bearing a plaque J. DE VILLE, 367 STRAND, LONDON; with later tulip-form frosted glass shades; now wired for electricity
height 8 3/4 in.
22.5 cm
Sotheby's London, 13 November 1998, lot 140;
Where acquired by Aso O. Tavitian
The London sculptor, plaster castor and phrenologist James De Ville (1776-1846) was initially recorded in Soho in 1803, then in Great Newport Street in Covent Garden and from 1814 at 367 The Strand. He is known to have provided casts to the sculptor Joseph Nollekens and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1823 and 1826.
The model is based on an antique Roman sepulchral monument from the Appian Way in the form of a boar's head rhyton, engraved by Piranesi in Vol.II of his Vasi, candelabri, cippi, sarcofagi, tripodi, lucerne, ed ornamenti antichi (1778). The design was also produced by the bronze manufactory of Thomas Messenger and Sons of Birmingham, including a pair probably commissioned by the 4th Duke of Newcastle and now at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, and another pair in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.