Antique Greek Key Table Lamp

Antique Greek Key Table LampA super chic light blue opaline glass table lamp, with Greek Key decoration France, second half of the 19th century. Why we love it This stylish lamp immediately evokes Le Got Madeleine Castaing if you ever saw her interiors, you know why. May be wired for any country.

Built by Thomas Medley c

and echoes other Gillows chair designs (ditto

second Earl Spencer (1758-1834) around 1800-1810

often depicted on Attic pottery starting from circa 400BC

Lord Chancellor of England (illustrated Christie’s catalogue 20 May 2014

were part of the very last stage of re-decoration

A most unusual English late 18th century George III period gentleman's dressing or vanity table in mahogany

A very well-drawn example of great colour

The table is designed in the neo-classical or Roman fashion

where designs for very richly carved seat furniture with extravagant neo-rococo decoration became the fashion and it was at this time that Oxford Street received such prestigious commissions as the magnificent twelve armchairs for Lord Fitzwilliam's Whistlejacket Room at Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire and the giltwood suite of seat furniture for the Red Drawing Room at Tatton Park

and Giles Grendey

Machines and Utensils (1757)