Cut glass Regency Dish Light with gilt-bronze oak leaf mount
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Cut glass Regency Dish Light with gilt-bronze oak leaf mount
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Cut glass Regency Dish Light with gilt-bronze oak leaf mount:
the diamond cut dish with acorn and oakleaf mount; suspended on three chains from anthemion crown; with acanthus bud terminal.
Circa 1830 and restored.
(A second very similar available).
| Height: | 40" | - | 100.0cm |
| Width: | 23" | - | 58.0cm |
Glossary Words
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.
gilded, gilt
A very thin layer of gold applied to brass or bronze.
anthemion
A palmette motif in the form of a stylised honeysuckle, found on classical Greek buildings such as the Erechtheum, in Athens, and often used as part of neo-classical decoration.
