Regency Bronze Column Lamp Attributed to William Bullock
£1,850
A Regency patinated bronze column lamp attributed to William Bullock, the fluted column with leaf-cast capital and acanthus leaf base over a waisted socle standing on a triform base with theatrical masks in gilt bronze; all standing on zoomorphic feet
Wired for electricity with silk braided flex. This lamp can be wired in our workshop for use in any country
This lamp has bacchic lion-footed ‘altar’ pedestals, whose theatrical masks relate to those illustrated in Thomas Hope’s Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. 37). The Liverpool sculptor William Bullock (d. 1836) took out a patent for this pattern in 1805. Bullock, trading as ‘Jeweller, Silversmith and China man’, at the ‘Museum and Bronze figure Manufactory’, Church Street, also advertised the opening of his ‘Egyptian Hall’ in 1805, and his ‘New assortment of every article in the Bronze and Ornamental Business’ (Gore’s ‘General Advertiser’). His bronze and basalt vases were later sold at his ‘Liverpool Museum’ opened in Piccadilly, London in 1809 and advertised the following year in R. Ackermann’s Repository of Arts. In 1812 he moved to new premises named ‘The London Museum’ but more generally known as the ‘Egyptian Hall’ (T. Clifford, ‘William Bullock – a fine fellow’, Christie’s International Magazine, July 1991, pp. 14-15).
A Regency clock, formerly in the collection of Lord Kinnaird, Rossie Priory, Perthshire, with identical base to the present example, was sold Christies, 6 July 1989, lot 118 and again 8 Jun 2006 lot 95. A pair of candelabra also with identical bases, was sold Christies, 16 November 1989, lot 9. A related pair was sold anonymously, Phillips, London, 9 February 1993 lot 132.
