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

Date	1800
Period	1750-1850, 18th century
Origin	England
Medium	Cut glass
Dimensions	130 x 76 cm (51¹/₈ x 29⁷/₈ inches)
Gallery	Ronald Phillips Ltd

Description
Technical

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
Dimensions: 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.
Categories: Furniture