THE PROPERTY OF HEADFORT SCHOOL
SOLD BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNORS
TO BENEFIT THE RESTORATION OF HEADFORT HOUSE
AND ITS ADAM INTERIORS
(Lots 41-51)
A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN NINE-BRANCH ORMOLU CANDELABRA
Details
A PAIR OF LATE VICTORIAN NINE-BRANCH ORMOLU CANDELABRA
Each surmounted by a vase with anthemion finial on a waisted foliate foot and dish issuing three scrolling and reeded branches terminating in a foliate stem and gadrooned dish with four ram masks and reeded drip-pan, above a waisted foliate and pearled stem and further dish, issuing six conforming branches, the ovoid body with trailed boss on three husk-trailed monopodia headed by a crowned and winged maiden-mask, joined by floral swags and a circular stretcher, terminating in hoof feet, on a concave-sided, canted, stepped triangular base with foliate bands, fitted for electricity, with eighteen frosted lamp shades
84in. (214cm.) high; 25½in. (65cm.) wide (2)
Each surmounted by a vase with anthemion finial on a waisted foliate foot and dish issuing three scrolling and reeded branches terminating in a foliate stem and gadrooned dish with four ram masks and reeded drip-pan, above a waisted foliate and pearled stem and further dish, issuing six conforming branches, the ovoid body with trailed boss on three husk-trailed monopodia headed by a crowned and winged maiden-mask, joined by floral swags and a circular stretcher, terminating in hoof feet, on a concave-sided, canted, stepped triangular base with foliate bands, fitted for electricity, with eighteen frosted lamp shades
84in. (214cm.) high; 25½in. (65cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Probably acquired by Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort (d.1894), Headfort House, co. Meath, Ireland.
Thence by descent at Headfort.
Thence by descent at Headfort.
Literature
C. Hussey, 'Headfort, Co. Meath, The Seat of the Marquess of Headfort', Country Life, 28 March 1936, part II, illustrated p. 327, fig. 3, shown in situ the Eating Parlour.