A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DINING ROOM URNS AND PEDESTALS

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WORKS OF ART FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PROFESSOR MICHAEL JAFFE LOTS 214-266

A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DINING ROOM URNS AND PEDESTALS

THE URNS ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1775, THE ASSOCIATED PEDESTALS LATE 19TH CENTURY AND INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS

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A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DINING ROOM URNS AND PEDESTALS
THE URNS ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1775, THE ASSOCIATED PEDESTALS LATE 19TH CENTURY AND INCORPORATING EARLIER ELEMENTS
Each urn of inverted campa shape with lion mask handles, the lids with flame finials, the pedestals each with hinged panelled front forming doors and a plinth base, labelled to the reverse 'MAPLE'S DEPOSITORY. / SIR BENJAMIN DRAGE / BENJAMIN', the labels numbered '44', the urns possibly originally with brass banding in place of the fluting and with lead-liners, the square bases altered when later united with the pedestals
67 in. (170 cm.) high; 19 in. (48 cm.) wide; 17 ¾ in. (45 cm.) deep

Provenance

Sir Benjamin Drage, probably at Lingfield House, Sussex.

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Lot Essay

The urns correspond to a pattern probably supplied by Gillows in the late 1770s to the Bell family for Thirsk Hall, Yorkshire, illustrated in Susan Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London 1730 - 1840, Woodbridge, 2008, vol. I, p. 309, pl. 343. These display the same lion mask handles as featured on a fully provenanced oval cistern, part of a large consignment of dining room furniture ordered, probably from Gillows in London, by William Hassell of Penrith in 1774 (ibid, p.307, pl.338). The urns, or vauses as they were described in Gillows correspondence, were lined either with lead to hold water or with tin to hold a lamp intended as a plate-warmer.

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