A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN, TULIPWOOD, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY GUERIDON

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THE PROPERTY OF THE MARQUESS OF CHOLMONDELEY, HOUGHTON HALL, NORFOLK (LOTS 84-96)

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN, TULIPWOOD, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY GUERIDON

THE PORCELAIN PLAQUE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER DECORATED, THE TRIPOD SUPPORT AND SABOTS 19TH CENTURY, THE CANDLEARMS 18TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED SOFT PASTE PORCELAIN, TULIPWOOD, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY GUERIDON
THE PORCELAIN PLAQUE 18TH CENTURY AND LATER DECORATED, THE TRIPOD SUPPORT AND SABOTS 19TH CENTURY, THE CANDLEARMS 18TH CENTURY
The green and bleu nouveau circular Sèvres porcelain top with central husks on a green ground and gilt border, surrounded by a pierced gallery with berried trailing foliate border on matted ground and centred by a lacquered brass adjustable candelabrum with top baluster-shaped finial and twin articulated candle holders with plain nozzles and drip pans, the shaped husk-trailed tapering stem with satinwood panels and lacquered brass socle on a tripod base with hipped husk-trailed cabriole legs and scrolled acanthus sabots, with circular label to the underside of the base numbered in ink '12/264'
41¾ in. (106 cm.) high, fully extended; 31¾ in. (35 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Acquired by Sir Charles Mills, Bt. (1792-1872) or possibly his son, Charles, 1st Lord Hillingdon (1830-98), Wildernesse Park, Sevenoaks, Kent.
Acquired circa 1936 by Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W1.
Thence by descent.

Literature

'Catalogue of the Furniture, Porcelain, Pictures &c. at Wildernesse Park, Sevenoaks, the seat of Lord Hillingdon', privately printed, 1891, p.27, illustrated in the Green Drawing Room.

Exhibited

London, 25 Park Lane, W1, Three French Reigns, 21 February - 5 April 1933, no. 44 (lent by Lord Hillingdon).

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The Hillingdon Collection, which was formed by Sir Charles Mills Bt. and enlarged by his son the 1st. Lord Hillingdon, was one of the greatest groups of 18th century French furniture and works of art assembled in the 19th century. It remarkably included 17 pieces of Louis XV and Louis XVI porcelain-mounted furniture, the largest accumulation of such pieces ever to be assembled. These pieces, together with other furniture and Sèvres porcelain, were sold from the collection in 1936, and are now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (C.C. Dauterman, Decorative Art from the Samuel Kress Collection, London, 1964, pp. 116-9 et passim).

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