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A customer found a lantern in their basement that had not been used for many years, but it needed a lot of work. A new 3-way central pendant wired with lamp holders was made, as the original had been lost, as well as manufacturing four missing leaf scrolls and one turned finial from the base. Any unbroken panes of glass were removed so that we could chemically clean the metalwork to remove all old paint, dirt and putty. Then apply two coats of red oxide paint inside and gild exterior of lantern in pure gold leaf. Replacement flat and curved glass was sourced and fitted and original glass cleaned.
Style: Lanterns
Fortunately this antique chandelier, which was almost certainly made by Hancock, didn’t have too many missing parts but just required some attention to rectify a few small issues. The metal framework required straightening, as it had become distorted and the top canopy had been put on upside down, so this needed to be repositioned to be historically correct. The original central solid iron rod was replaced with a new hollow steel barrel, this allows the wiring to pass through unseen internally rather than visibly attached on the outside. It was just the interior of the chandelier that was rewired as the client wanted to retain the use of wax candles on the exterior nozzles, of which only a couple needed repairing with high viscosity adhesive. The strands of buttons were held together with very brittle metal pins that would almost certainly snap in the future, so about 1500 of these pins were replaced and the buttons themselves re-ordered to create a consistent graduation.
Style: Crystal Chandelier, Large Chandelier
Following an unfortunate accident to one of a pair of antique Georgian candelabra, there were a great number of broken pieces, infact the only completely undamaged item was the central serpet arm. Using the undamaged candelabra of the pair we were able to blow and cut replacement arms, nozzles and pans. Fortunately some pieces only had chips in or were clean breaks so we were able to repair these pieces to obtain as many of the originals as possible.
Style: Candelabra / Lustres
From “England’s Greatest Elizabethan House” Burghley House this very fine quality 6 branch Georgian chandelier required restoration of some existing pieces and replacement of others that were missing.
New glass pieces were blown in grey crystal to emulate the naturally smoked colour of original Georgian glass and replacement crystal drops sourced from our library of antique pieces. Metalwork was sympathetically altered to allow it’s use with modern electric wiring and to retain as many original elements as possible, crack or chipped pieces were bonded or ground down.
Style: Crystal Chandelier
This stunning chandelier manufactured by Perry & Co, had been in storage at Chatsworth House until we were asked to restore the 1840’s chandelier. Sadly there were quite a number of original pieces missing – 2 large leaf arms, 3 rings, 8 collars, 4 savalls, 4 nozzles, 6 leaf pans, 2 leaf upturned pan bases, 2 arm finials, 3 wedge finial sconces and 5 threaded candle holders. Our UK based glass blower was able to produce blank lead crystal pieces for our skilled glass workers to cut to replicate the originals.
When company owner David Wilkinson saw images of the chandelier pre-restoration, he knew that the fitting did not look quite right, this was due to the fact there were a number of the main stem pieces missing, meaning the chandelier was too short, using his knowledge and research into other antique Perry chandeliers from the period he was able to have new pieces manufactured so that the chandelier was again historically correct and in proportion.
Style: Crystal Chandelier
We were asked to restore this pair of large early Victorian gilt-lacquered and patinated-bronze seven light candelabra ready to be auctioned. They had been in storage for many years and the metalwork had become very tired and the candelabra had unfortunately lost a couple of its metal castings. By making moulds of the remaining metal pieces we were able to cast new brass pieces and colour them to match. They were re-gilded and bronzed before selling at Christie’s auction – Works of Art from the Collection of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon in 2006.
Style: Candelabra / Lustres
Dimensions: Height 115cm
Before being restored this Georgian style “Williamsburg” chandelier was shattered into many pieces after falling from the ceiling at a customers house after their builders had incorrectly installed a ceiling hook. New lead crystal pieces were blown and then hand cut in our Kent workshops, it required 6 new arms and pans, 3 stem pieces, one central bowl and over 60 new cut pears.
Style: Crystal Chandelier
A very talented associate of ours is able to manufacture these wonderful chandeliers made with imitation coral and a variety of shells and sea findings. Being handmade, they can be made to any size and with your requested number of arms or prefered shells. They are fully electrified or can be used with wax candles if prefered. For more information please contact us.
Dimensions: Height 180cm – Width 130cm
Registered Company Number: 02670892
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