19th Century Cornish Red Serpentine Column Lamp By Osler
An early Victorian gilt bronze mounted column lamp made by the renowned lighting manufacturer of the day, Thomas Osler. The Cornish red serpentine column with gilt bronze corinthian capital and raised on a gilt bronze socle over a stepped base of red serpentine with gilt feet. Signed T. OSLER to the capital
Originally an oil lamp now wired for electricity with silk braided flex. This lamp can be wired in our workshop for use in any country
The Birmingham firm of Osler was established by Thomas Osler in 1807, when he joined a Mr. Shakespeare’s glasshouse at Hockley. His sons Follett and Clarkson renamed the firm F. & C. Osler and by 1851, they were one of Britain’s leading glassmakers. The firm created a twenty-seven foot glass fountain, an eight-month undertaking, which formed the centrepiece of the entire Great Exhibition of 1851. Amongst their other displays were glass busts of celebrity figures, as well as a pair of eight-foot candelabra, now at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, which Queen Victoria presented to Prince Albert in 1849.
