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Drawing by Moses Lafount for patent no. 2153, (1796)
A PAIR OF GEORGE III CHANDELIERS BY MOSES LAFOUNT, English, circa 1800
Height: 48 in; 122 cm
Diameter: 34 in; 86.5 cm
Diameter: 34 in; 86.5 cm
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Moses Lafount, a Huguenot émigré from France, took out a patent numbered 2153 for his unusual chandelier design in 1796. The drawing included with the patent is virtually identical to...
Moses Lafount, a Huguenot émigré from France, took out a patent numbered 2153 for his unusual chandelier design in 1796. The drawing included with the patent is virtually identical to these chandeliers. The centre receiving plates are stamped ‘LAFOUNT PATENT’ and numbered 1170 and 1171 respectively.
Provenance
Private collection, England.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.
