The palm corona with a gadrooned body embellished with floral motifs and lilies, issuing five foliate-cast suspension chains, the main body with flowerheads, centred by a palm and foliate-cast finial, issuing five scrolling foliate branches, with lotus boss, fitted for electricity
53 in. (135 cm.) high; 35 in. (89 cm.) diameter

Probably Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey and 1st Earl of Powis (3rd creation 1804), (1754 – 1839), 45 Berkeley Square, London.
Edward Herbert (formerly Clive), 2nd Earl of Powis (1785-1848);
Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (1818-91);
George Charles Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (1862-1952);
Thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

The chandelier, intended to be illuminated by candles, is attributed the Cockspur Street firm of Messrs. Hancock & Rixon. The firm was established as early as the 1760s by Colebron Hancock and continued through several partnerships, including Hancock & Shepherd (1796) and Hancock, Shepherd & Rixon (1814), at which time their bill described them as `Glass Manufacturers, By Special Appointment To His Britannic Majesty and the Royal Family'. The firm supplied a number of chandeliers, lamps and associated objects to the Royal household between 1832 and 1857 including a magnificent sixty-light gilt-bronze chandelier designed by A.W.N Pugin for the Queen's Guard Chamber, Windsor Castle (1828 - 30) and `4 large chandeliers for the Grand Reception Rms - Windsor' (1835) (payments recorded in the Lord Chamberlain's accounts). As Hancock & Co they supplied items to Chatsworth, Derbyshire, between 1820 - 35 (G. Beard & C. Gilbert, Leeds, 1986, pp. 392 - 393). In 1851 they exhibited a 32 light cut-glass chandelier at the Great Exhibition.
Several of the chandeliers mentioned bear comparison with the example offered here and it's appropriate that Hancock might have supplied such opulent light fittings for 45 Berkeley Square, the London mansion of Lord Clive, Earl of Powis, whose heirs continued to occupy it until 1936.