Stunning Antique Banqueting Oil Lamp standing 79.5cm tall overall.
 
The lamp has a tall Doric column base with a fluted brass column upon a stepped patinated copper plinth with a matching screw fit top. 
 
The font has a screw fit bottom and collar and is superbly cut with lozenge shaped cuts around the perimeter and panel cuts to the shoulders.
 
A rare Thomas Rowatt Duplex burner is fitted which is fully marked “T.R.S.” to the black glass wick winder buttons, with working wick winders and snuffer level, an antique gallery, new wick and Anchor Brand flat bulge chimney.
 
I decided not to polish the burner as it’s patina matches the top and bottom of the base.
 
The lamp is completed with a stunning graduated cranberry glass frilled top shade, embossed with an iris pattern. Excellent condition.
 
About Thomas Rowatt & Son
 
The firm of Thomas Rowatt & Son was first listed in the Edinburgh Post office directory in 1862 as paraffin lamp and mineral oil manufacturers with premises in Lothian Road. From 1873, the premises were listed as 126 Fountainbridge, and from 1875, the firm was listed as Thomas Rowatt & Sons. From 1879 the firm was listed only as paraffin lamp manufactures, dropping all reference to mineral oil manufacture.