Lot Essay
The pair to this bracket, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and is illustrated in R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, Rev. Edn. 1954, Vol. I, p. 116, fig. 1
Details
A QUEEN ANNE GILTWOOD WALL BRACKET
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The shaped shelf with leaf-tip edge hung with lambrequins, on a foliate and scrolled support mounted with addorsed lions and with scrolled and husk back frame--15in.(38cm.) high, 14½in.(37cm.) wide
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The shaped shelf with leaf-tip edge hung with lambrequins, on a foliate and scrolled support mounted with addorsed lions and with scrolled and husk back frame--15in.(38cm.) high, 14½in.(37cm.) wide
Provenance
Sold in these Rooms, 13 June 1985, lot 12