Lot 202
202
A PAIR OF SCOTTISH GEORGE IV GILTWOOD GIRANDOLES

Details
A PAIR OF SCOTTISH GEORGE IV GILTWOOD GIRANDOLES
MID-18TH CENTURY

Each later bottle-form plate formed by a pair of upright dolphins, with laurel wreath cresting above a satyr's mask, the base with palm fronds and ribbon-tie , now issuing a pair of foliate candlearms (re-gilt, replacements)--49in. (125cm.) high, 27in. (69cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Sold in these rooms, 30 January 1982, lot 155
Further details
The design of these girandoles in the form of laurel wreaths continuing to entwined dolphins with triumphal ribbon-tied palms is designed in the George III 'antique' manner popularized by the King's architect, William Chambers. A design incorporating this form appears in Chamber's A Treatise on Civil Architecture of 1791 and is reproduced in J. Harris, Sir William Chambers, 1970, pl. 192.

Lot Essay

The design of these girandoles in the form of laurel wreaths continuing to entwined dolphins with triumphal ribbon-tied palms is designed in the George III 'antique' manner popularized by the King's architect, William Chambers. A design incorporating this form appears in Chamber's A Treatise on Civil Architecture of 1791 and is reproduced in J. Harris, Sir William Chambers, 1970, pl. 192.