A PAIR OF GEORGE II PINE PEDESTALS

CIRCA 1745

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A PAIR OF GEORGE II PINE PEDESTALS
CIRCA 1745
Each square top with acanthus and bead and reel-carved underside with rosette-embossed frieze and an acanthus and flowerhead moulding above a tapered panelled shaft applied with scrolled flowerheads issuing bellflower swags within foliate-carved slips on acanthus-carved plinth bases, previously decorated, carved to three sides
46½ in. (108 cm.) high, the tops 11 in. (29 cm.) square (2)

Lot Essay

The taper-hermed pedestals, intended for the display of busts, are flowered and festooned with Roman acanthus in the George II Roman fashion promoted by the court artist/architect William Kent (d.1748) and James Gibbs in his Book of Architecture, 1728. A closely related pedestal, formerly in the possession of Messrs Lenygon & Co., is illustrated F. Lenygon, Furniture in England from 1660-1760, London, 1914, p. 187, fig. 277.

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