Apter-Fredericks

Important English 18th Century Antique Furniture

Lighting

A Set of Four George III Ormolu Mounted Three Branch Wall Lights
A Superb Pair of Regency Period 'Temple' Candelabra
A Fine Regency Period Chandelier
An Important Chandelier Attributed To Perry & Co
A Pair of Regency Period Candelabra of the Finest Quality & in Outstanding Condition
A Pair of Regency Period Cut-Glass Candelabra
An Early Regency Period Cut Glass & Ormolu Chandelier
A Fine and Rare Set of Four George III Cut Glass Candelabra
A Pair of Late Eighteenth Century Glass Lustres
A George III Brass Eight Branch Chandelier Attributed to John Giles
A Regency Period Hexagonal Brass Lantern
A Pair of Regency period Alabaster & Ormolu Candlesticks
A Pair of Two-Tier Lustres Attributed to Blades
A Pair of Regency Period Two Tier Lustres Attributed to Blades
A Very Rare Pair of Eighteenth Century Coalport Lustres
A Pair of Late Eighteenth Century Vases Now Mounted as Lamps
A Superb Pair of Empire Figural Candelabra
A Pair of Regency Period Cut Glass Lustres
A Magnificent Regency Chandelier Attributable to John Blades
An Extremely Rare Pair of Georgian Brass Candelabra
A Pair of Two-Tier Lustres Attributed to Blades

A Pair of Two-Tier Lustres Attributed to Blades

Height: 10" 25.5cm
Diameter: 4" 11.5cm

The radically cut base supporting a diamond cut and ormolu mounted glass column with feather-cut scalloped edge drip pan below a similarly scalloped nozzle. The drip pan and nozzle hung with chains of buttons and round double cut icicles.

English, Circa 1820

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'.