Lot 69
69
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD TORCHERE, the dished circular top with scalloped edge above overhanging pendant rockwork, the turned shaft with naturalistic flutes and on a spirally-fluted baluster flanked by three inverted dolphins with scroll tails, the canted triangular platform base with guilloche frieze and on flexed naturalistic feet, re-gilt, the shaft and top of later date, the base probably originally a polescreen

Details
A GEORGE III GILTWOOD TORCHERE, the dished circular top with scalloped edge above overhanging pendant rockwork, the turned shaft with naturalistic flutes and on a spirally-fluted baluster flanked by three inverted dolphins with scroll tails, the canted triangular platform base with guilloche frieze and on flexed naturalistic feet, re-gilt, the shaft and top of later date, the base probably originally a polescreen
the top 8¾in. (22cm.) diameter; the base 17¾in. (45cm.) wide; 51¾in. (131cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Bought from Randolph, 41 High Street, Baldock, Hertfordshire at the Antique Dealers' Fair, Grosvenor House, June 1962, for #1,050

Lot Essay

The design of this torchère is inspired by Thomas Chippendale, The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 3rd ed., 1762, pl. LXXI (right hand design). The tripod base with twisted dolphins corresponds to that of a card-table supplied for Admiralty House, London, in 1813 (see: O. Brackett, 'Furniture', Georgian Art, London, 1929, pl. 5).

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