Lot Essay
With their palm-wrapped lion-monopodia these torchères relate to patterns for chimera-supported tripod tables published in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pls.XV and XXXII).
There is a pair of torchères of this model in the Victoria and Albert Museum (W.35-1946). One of them is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev. ed., 1965, p.21, fig. 21.
There is a pair of torchères of this model in the Victoria and Albert Museum (W.35-1946). One of them is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1830, London, rev. ed., 1965, p.21, fig. 21.