Moses Lafount - A GEORGE III EIGHT LIGHT CHANDELIER, NO. 426

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Moses Lafount

A GEORGE III EIGHT LIGHT CHANDELIER, NO. 426

Ronald Phillips Ltd

Date 1800

Period 1750-1850, 18th century

Origin England

Medium Cut glass

Dimension 130 x 76 cm (51¹/₈ x 29⁷/₈ inches)

Moses Lafount patented this unusual design for chandeliers in January 1797. The town assembly rooms of Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk retain a group of seven chandeliers to the Lafount patent, possibly supplied around 1804.

Date: 1800

Period: 1750-1850, 18th century

Origin: England

Medium: Cut glass

Dimension: 130 x 76 cm (51¹/₈ x 29⁷/₈ inches)

Literature: Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, revised edition, 1954, vol. 1, p. 337, fig. 26.
Martin Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, 2000, pp. 120-24. Ronald Phillips Ltd., 2016 catalogue, pp. 166-9.

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