A leaded glass hexagonal lantern possibly late 16th or early 17th century

with a single candle aperture door and a single sconce to the centre of the interior

cracks to at least nine of the glass panes. Lead distorted in places. Later improvised hanging device
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The form of this lantern relates very closely to an example at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire and illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Rev. Ed., 1990, p. 282, fig.1. It is noted here that the lantern at Hardwick was included in an inventory of 1601 attached to the will of Bess of Hardwick and described as; 'a great glass Lanthorn in the half pace at the stair head'.