A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DINING ROOM URNS ON PEDESTALS

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DINING ROOM URNS ON PEDESTALS
LATE 18TH CENTURY

Each tapering fluted urn banded with interlaced guilloche and rams' masks and with gadrooned fluted finial enclosing a lead-lined interior, on a tapering socle and squared platform, each pedestal with a drawer above a panelled door, or a full cabinet door, both carved with pendant husk swags and paterae on a plinth (alterations)--the urns: 31in. (79cm.) high, 16in. (41cm.) wide; the pedestals: 42in. (107cm.) high, 20in. (51cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

These vase-capped pedestals with ormolu guilloche banding hung with bacchic ram masks, and husk-festooned medallions within hollow-cornered panels relate to patterns published in George Hepplewhite's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 3rd edn., 1794, pls. 35 and 36. A closely related pair belonging to O.V. Watney, Esq., Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire, was sold by Christie's, 22 May 1967, lot 335.