Lantern

  • Designer / Makers

    Designer, maker and retailer W.A.S. Benson (1854-1924)

    Glass by James Powell & Sons, Whitefriars Glass Works (1834-1980)

  • Detail

    Wrought iron and glass

    Height: 41 cm (from hook to base of glass, approx.)

    English (London), circa 1895

  • Provenance

    […]; Adrian J. Tilbrook, July 1989; Clive and Jane Wainwright

  • Exhibited

    The Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, H. Blairman & Sons, 21 June – 14 July 2023, no. 12

  • Literature

    W.A.S. Benson, Price List of Fittings for Oil, Gas, Candle, Table Ware, &c., trade catalogue, London, 1899-1900, No. 5515/s

    Oliver Garnett, Standen, The National Trust, 2002 edition, pp. 50-51 and 60 (for other examples of this model, installed in 1894)

    Clive and Jane Wainwright Collection, London: H. Blairman & Sons, 2023, no. 12

  • Collection

    Private collection