THE PROPERTY OF A LADY (lots 124-125)
A MATCHED PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD JARDINIERES, each with circular top with brown tôle liner and tapering body carved with elongated lotus leaves and on inverted acanthus cup baluster shaft, between triple eagle-headed scroll supports with flowerhead terminals, leaf-carved shafts and claw feet, on concave-sided canted triangular platform base and scrolled feet, restorations to one, variations in carving and design, damage to one plinth

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A MATCHED PAIR OF WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD JARDINIERES, each with circular top with brown tôle liner and tapering body carved with elongated lotus leaves and on inverted acanthus cup baluster shaft, between triple eagle-headed scroll supports with flowerhead terminals, leaf-carved shafts and claw feet, on concave-sided canted triangular platform base and scrolled feet, restorations to one, variations in carving and design, damage to one plinth
23¾in. (60.5cm.) diam.; 33¼in. (84cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Two similar jardinières, one bearing the trade label of 'Richard Henry Masters, furnishing warerooms, No. 1 Pitville Street, Cheltenham' were sold in these Rooms, 24 October 1985, lot 31. Further related examples were sold Sotheby's New York, 2 November 1985, lot 193 and in these Rooms, 8 October 1987, lot 25.

A related pair are at Temple Newsam House, Leeds (see: C. Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, London, 1978, vol.II, p.491, no.646).

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