Lot 163
163
A PAIR OF GILTWOOD GIRANDOLES each with pear-shaped plate within a foliage-carved frame, the cresting carved as an inverted sunflower supporting a spray of acanthus foliage, the base with a foliage spray and a foliate scrolling candle-branch with glass drip-pan and brass nozzle

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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD GIRANDOLES each with pear-shaped plate within a foliage-carved frame, the cresting carved as an inverted sunflower supporting a spray of acanthus foliage, the base with a foliage spray and a foliate scrolling candle-branch with glass drip-pan and brass nozzle
33¼ x 16in. (84.5 x 41cm.) (2)

Lot Essay

This lyre-shaped frame capped by a palmette is designed in the antique manner of Robert Adam, architect to King George III and relates to his girandole pattern of 1770 executed for Robert Child at Osterley Park, Middlesex by John Linnell, cabinet-maker of Berkeley Square. (See M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, pp.32-3).

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