A PAIR OF REGENCY EGYPTIAN REVIVAL BRONZE AND PARCEL ORMOLU TABLE OIL LAMP BASES

in the manner of Thomas Hope, with face mask friezes, slender fluted columns each on three Bacchic paw feet, 35cm high

See Hope, Thomas, ’Drawing Room Candelabra’ in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl.6)

Provenance: The Estate of the late John Rollo Somerset-Paddon, formerly of Chalk Newton House, Maiden Newton, Dorset, thence by descent.