Online Auction 21110The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland Online
TWO GEORGE IV BRONZE AND GILT-­LACQUERED BRASS COLZA OIL LAMPS
Lot 480

TWO GEORGE IV BRONZE AND GILT-­LACQUERED BRASS COLZA OIL LAMPS

BY BRIGHT AND CO., CIRCA 1825

Closed20 October 2023

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TWO GEORGE IV BRONZE AND GILT-­LACQUERED BRASS COLZA OIL LAMPS
BY BRIGHT AND CO., CIRCA 1825
Each with a cylindrical reservoir above a stem, the single-branch lamp applied with palmettes on a stepped base, lacking one branch; the two-branch lamp with flame finial similarly applied and on fluted stem and cylindrical plinth, stamped Bright & Co. Bruton St., wired for electricity
29 ½ in. (74 cm.) high and 30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) high respectively

Possibly Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire and thence by descent.
Property from Two Ducal Collections, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire; Christie's, House Sale, 20-21 September 2004, lots 104 and 105.
Property of Bronson Pinchot; Christie's, New York, 18 October 2005, lot 413.
Acquired by Ann Getty from the above.

Specialist note

Bright and Co. shared premises with Argand and Co. at 37 Bruton Street, London from about 1805. Bright seems to have taken over the Argand business by around 1825 (Temple Newsam House, 'Country House Lighting 1660-1890', Exhibition Catalogue, 1992, no.72).
A gothic lamp similar to the current two branch lamp, with urn-capped pillar and fretted octagonal plinth, is in the collection at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire and bears the label 'Hancock & Rixon' of Great Marlborough Street (ibid).

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