A Gilt-Bronze, Cut and Moulded Glass Nine-Light Chandelier

Object Description

A Fine Gilt-Bronze, Cut and Moulded Glass Nine-Light Chandelier by Perry & Co.

This elegant English chandelier has a moulded glass ovoid and baluster stem with gilt-bronze circlet, surmounted by a scrolling gilt-bronze acanthus corona, above a finely cut dished receiver bowl issuing three sets of scrolling arms with lobed cast sconces and moulded drip trays, hung all over with chains of octagonal flatbacks, facet cut pear drops and round icicles, terminating in a facet cut ball terminal.

English, Circa 1870.

Object History

Perry & Co.

Perry & Co. supplied the nine ‘inverted parasol’ chandeliers in the Music Room of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, for the Prince Regent, at a cost of £4,290.12s. On the sale of the Royal Pavilion to the commissioners of Brighton in 1850 they were removed and taken to London. All but four, which remain in Buckingham Palace, were returned to the Pavilion in 1864.

Perry & Co produced a range of lighting fittings, all using the highest quality English cut-glass drops.

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