Live Auction 5233Christie's Interiors Including the Tessa Kennedy Collection
A PAIR OF BRONZE BOAR'S HEAD COLZA LAMPS
Lot 364

A PAIR OF BRONZE BOAR'S HEAD COLZA LAMPS

IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS MESSENGER, CIRCA 1820

Closed18 March 2014

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GBP 1,875

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A PAIR OF BRONZE BOAR'S HEAD COLZA LAMPS
IN THE MANNER OF THOMAS MESSENGER, CIRCA 1820
Each on fluted cavetto moulded plinth, slight differences to the finials
7.1/2 in. (19 cm.) high; 11 in. (28 cm.) wide

Specialist note

The boar-headed 'rhyton' horn lamp derives from a celebrated antiquity illustrated in G.B. Piranesi's, 'Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcofagi...', 1778. The stamp of Thomas Messenger and Sons of Birmingham is recorded on a pair of closely related lamps in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and a rhyton also features on the firm's trade-card of the 1830s (C. Gilbert and A Wells-Cole,The Fashionable Fire Place, 1660-1840, Temple Newsam House, Leeds, 1985, pp.145 and 140 fig. 95).