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A Regency Chandelier Attributable to John Blades

SOLD - A Magnificent Regency Chandelier Attributable to John Blades

Height: 46" 1m 17
Diameter: 27" 68.5cm

The chandelier of excellent design and quality of traditional form surmounted by a coronet festooned with buttons and rule drops with draped buttons forming the 'Tent' connecting the upper and lower tiers. The lower ormolu ring supporting eight ormolu candle arms, each with the unusual feature of a double tier of rule drops.

English, Circa 1825

Reference: A similar example by John Blades is illustrated in The English Glass Chandelier, M.Mortimer, pl 80 pg 136.

John Blades opened his showrooms at 5 Ludgate Hill in 1783 and remained there until his death in 1829. Unusual in that he used an outside designer, the well known architect J. B. Papworth, Blades was also the first English glass company to open a branch in India, in Calcutta. By the time of his marriage in 1789 he had been appointed Cut Glass Manufacturer to George III and was known as 'the great glass man of Ludgate Hill'.