A PAIR OF REGENCY GILT AND PATINATED BRASS COLZA 'PATENT' LAMPS, CIRCA 1812, ATTRIBUTED TO SMETHURST AND PAUL
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January 21, 06:17 PM GMT
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6,000 - 10,000 GBP
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KILLADOON HOUSE, PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT IRISH ESTATE
A PAIR OF REGENCY GILT AND PATINATED BRASS COLZA 'PATENT' LAMPS, CIRCA 1812, ATTRIBUTED TO SMETHURST AND PAUL
the bowl decorated with anthemions above scrolled brackets and arms, the tripod supports with lion masks and ring handles on lion paw feet and a triangular base, with contemporary painted paper shades
75cm. high; 2ft. 5½in.
Probably supplied to Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim, KP PC (Ire) (1768-1854)
Inventory, 10th February 1812, 'Two Patent Lamps' in the Dining Room;
Inventory, April 1830, 'Two Patent Lamps two burners each' in the Dining Room;
Inventory, 27th June 1836, two of the 'Four bronze and ormolu lamps for the sideboards - two burners to each lamp' in the Dining Room;
John Cornforth, 'Killadoon, Co Kildare - II', Country Life, 22 January 2004, p. 55;
The Knight of Glin and James Peill, The Irish Country House, China, 2010, p. 145.
A pair of colza lamps en suite with the present lot and which have remained in the family collection, bear a label for Smethurst and Paul (No. 2456 Patent). The Smethurst in question is almost certainly the Regency lamp-manufacturer and oil warehouseman James Smethurst of 138 New Bond Street, who supplied lamps to the Duke of Devonshire for Devonshire House, London. For an almost identical example, see that illustrated in Steven Parissien, Regency Style, Singapore, 1992, p. 110.