Bronze Hinks English Empire Banquet Lamp, circa 1840

A very fine pair of mid-Victorian parcel gilt bronze oil lamps, by Hinks, each modelled as a bearded warrior dressed in the style of a Saxon king with a crowned helmet, broadsword and double-headed battle axe, standing in front of a slender scroll support surmounted by a cut glass oil reservoir, all set on a shaped ormolu base encircled with a victor’s wreath of oak leaves, and raised on an octagonal bronze base, converted to electricity, stamped ‘Hinks & Sons Patent’ on the fitting. English, circa 1860. Footnote: James Hinks (1816-1905). Leaving home at 16 he tried many trades from wood turning, japanning, brush making, die sinking, medal making and even being a pub landlord, before manufacturing oil lamps. Working from the Crystal Lamp Works, Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, he was joined by his son Joseph and renamed the company ‘James Hinks and Son in 1862’. They won a patent for ‘improvements in lamps’ the following year and swiftly launched the ‘Patent Duplex Lamp...

This French Empire-style table lamp began its life circa 1840 as a finely cast bronze column, likely part of a decorative candlestick, architectural mount, or garniture element. Now ...

English hallmarked kerosene or oil banquet table lamp in silver plated nickel. The lamp is a doric column design with a gadroon edged drum form plinth on an extended gadroon edged ci...

Empire style bronze lamp in patinated bronze. No screen. The base of the lamp stands on a polygonal base, which has been given a vase shape with a polygonal body of classicist insp...

Pair of gilt bronze and black marble lamps, circa 1840.

Painted with flowers on a white ground, the reverse with vertical panels with bell flowers alternating with gold panels, with mask lion handles, mounted on painted wood stands.

Antique desk lamp / table lamp Empire circa 1900, gold-plated bronze. Solid bronze, fire-gilt, France circa 1900. Table map with 2 sockets, elect...

Circa 1804-1815 first empire bronze dore lamps with curved handles and lion heads. Attributed to Claude Galle a French Bronzier. The urn itself is sixteen i...

Victorian Brass Oil Lamp by Hinks of Birmingham of Neoclassical Corinthian Form with Green Glass Reservoir, and Original Shade with 4 Avian scenes - fully operational as parafin oil ...

A fine pair of mid- to late-19th-century French Empire–style gilt-bronze candelabra, later converted into lamps. Each piece features a fluted column rising to finely chased capitals ...