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Patent drawing by Moses Lafount, 1796
100 A GEORGE III CUT GLASS EIGHT LIGHT CHANDELIER BY MOSES LAFOUNT, NO. 426 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. The central receiving plate of the chandelier is stamped ‘LAFOUNT PATENT’ and numbered 426. English, circa 1800 Height: 51 in; 130 cm Diameter: 30 in; 76 cm 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.
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