Four branch Regency gilded and black bronze Colza Oil Dishlight
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Four branch Regency gilded and black bronze Colza Oil Dishlight
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Four branch Regency gilded and black bronze Colza Oil Dishlight:
suspended on ornamental chains to top gilded palmleaf crown; the black bronze dish with anthemion and Bacchus mask decoration to the underside.
Circa 1820, restored and supplied with frosted shades.
Height: | 34" | - | 86.5cm |
Width: | 21" | - | 53.5cm |
colza oil
A non-drying, yellow oil with little odour, obtained from the seeds of brassica campestris. In the Regency period, this was burned to provide light. See Argand.
Regency
Named after the Prince Regent, later George IV, circa 1810 to 1830, the term is also used more widely to describe the prevailing English neo-classical style between the 1790s and 1840. In lighting, they used multiple cut-glass prisms to achieve as many reflections as possible such as 'double-stars' and 'icicles'. Two chandelier designs typical of this period are the colza oil dish light and the balloon-shaped chandelier with graduated chains of prisms.
Bacchus
Mythical god of wine, usually depicted as a smiling male figure crowned with a wreath of grapes. A 'bacchanalean feast' is one of riotous, drunken revelry.