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The set was sold from Kensington Palace, probably in the late nineteenth century, and passed to Brympton d'Evercy in Somerset.    \n\nOn loan to Kensington Palace.\n","physicalDescription":"A chandelier of carved and gilded wood with ten S-scroll branches carved with acanthus foliage and ending in cups fitted with brass sockets. The vase-shaped stem, surmounted by a royal crown and ornamented with lambrequins and pendant husks, has fixed rings at the top and under the base of the stem for raising and lowering the chandelier.   \r\n\r\nDesign (from top)\r\nA royal crown surmounted by ball and four-sided quatrefoil cross; a vase formed by everted plain leaf (hatched ground) and dart, with ring and gadrooned foot; a reel-shaped drum with hazzling on its mouldings; lambrequins with husk ornament and tassels; a vase of everted acanthus leaf and dart, with gadrooned foot; a reel-shaped drum to receive the sockets; a large drum with husk ornament above a vase formed by everted leaves with husk and dart on a hatched background; small boss with leaf ornament.\r\nEach socket is of S shape, in square profile with acanthus leaf, with a scroll at each end and a square moulding with hazzling at the mid-point, the sides with a defined compartment containing a hatched ground.\r\n\r\nStructure \r\nThe main body of the chandelier below the crown appears to be made of one section with a baluster drum into which each of the ten branches is tenoned, and fixed using long screws (apparently 20th century in date), and possibly glued as well. A full-length iron rod runs centrally through the chandelier. \r\n\r\nGilding\r\nThe chandelier retains extensive areas of original water gilding on a thin gesso ground over a dark red bole. In many areas, the gold leaf is worn, revealing bole or gesso. Areas of remaining gold leaf appear burnished. 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I am pleased to offer this chandelier to the Museum at 10% profit….totalling £814.\"\r\n\r\nTyped notes of 7/1/60\r\nexplain that the chandelier and a bureau were acquired by exchange of 18th C. chairs.  It  describes the chandelier: \"dates from the late 17th or early 18th century and probably forms part of the original furnishings of Kensington Palace.  It is one of a set of six which formerly hung in the Queen's Gallery at the Palace, and which are shown in the view of that Gallery in Pyne's 'Royal Residences', p.67.  This volume was published in 1819 and the chandeliers remained in the Palace until the end of the 19th century when they were sold.  Three of them were purchased by Sir Spencer Ponsonby Fane for his house at Brympton d'Evercy, when they were sold a few years ago.  It is one of these three that has now been acquired\".\r\n\r\nOther references in the files are in connection with the exchange transaction.\r\n\r\nPhillips of Hitchin Ltd, Invoice\r\n\"One of a set of carved gilt chandeliers from Brympton D'Evercy, formerly at Kensington Palace\" £814 \r\n(with walnut bureau £600 - by contra £1000 credit for chairs = £414 purchase price)\r\n\r\nPhillips of Hitchin letter 26/9/59 notes\r\n\"I have already sold the companion chandelier for a considerably higher price….\"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"A chandelier of carved and gilded wood; English, late seventeenth century. 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