The chandelier is typical of the work of Perry & Co., successors to Parker and Perry, in the mid-19th century and might even be thought a `standard' pattern of theirs. Stylistically it recalls William Parker's own creations from the last decades of the 18th century but the tapering stem (above the branches) has parallels with the chandeliers supplied to Sir Matthew Featherstonhaugh before 1774 for Uppark, Sussex. These are associated with the London glass cutter Christopher Haedy as described in Martin Mortimer, The English Glass Chandelier, Woodbridge, 2000, pp 90 - 93, though the specific feature that suggests the link, namely some idiosyncratic solid glass drapery swags (`festoons of entire paste') displayed on the Uppark chandeliers are clearly not in evidence on the present lot. Perry 7 Co's chandeliers of the mid-19th century are characterised by the twisted arms, very clear (uncoloured) glass and by the silvered metalwork.