Lot 243
243
A PAIR OF GILTWOOD TORCHERES, each with fluted urn-shaped top carved with acanthus on a turned part-gadrooned shaft with pierced scrolled supports and acanthus-carving, on a foliate-carved bowl and a spreading triangular plinth carved with foliage and centred on each side by a crests and the monogram MAR below a coronet, on scroll feet headed by foliate trails and winged masks, 18th Century and probably English

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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD TORCHERES, each with fluted urn-shaped top carved with acanthus on a turned part-gadrooned shaft with pierced scrolled supports and acanthus-carving, on a foliate-carved bowl and a spreading triangular plinth carved with foliage and centred on each side by a crests and the monogram MAR below a coronet, on scroll feet headed by foliate trails and winged masks, 18th Century and probably English
15½in. (39cm.) wide; 45in. (114cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

A pair of torcheres of similar overall form were sold from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. E.A. McGuire, Newtown Park House, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland, Christie's house sale, 20-22 Spetember 1976, lot 46. Their bases were carved with the more obviously symbolic monogram IHS and it has been suggested that the present candlesticks are masonic. The monogram may refer to a position within the lodge.

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