A PAIR OF GEORGE II STYLE GILTWOOD GIRANDOLES

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY, AFTER A DESIGN BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II STYLE GILTWOOD GIRANDOLES
Second quarter 19th century, after a design by Thomas Chippendale
Each depicting a scene of lovers against architectural ruins and a fir tree above foliate scrolls inset with mirrored slips over four assymetric waved candlebranches, one lacking urn finial to top
38in. (96.5cm.) high, 17in. (43cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Acquired from Axel Vervoordt.

Lot Essay

This pair of girandoles relate to a pair, Victorian or Edwardian in date which relate to a design in the Director (1762), pl. CLXXVIII. Both the original drawing and one of the copies are illustrated in C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, vol. II, London, 1978, p. 181, figs. 325 & 326.

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