Lot 30
30
VARIOUS PROPERTIES
A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE-MOUNTED DINING-ROOM PEDESTALS AND URNS

CIRCA 1820

Details
A PAIR OF REGENCY BRONZE-MOUNTED DINING-ROOM PEDESTALS AND URNS
circa 1820
Each tapering urn with domed lid, guilloche upper border and leaf-carved base flanked by scrolled and acanthus-carved handles with tapering socle, painted deep green to simulate bronze, each pedestal with raised platform and raised rounded corners above a foliate bronze mount, the cabinet door with ebonized laurel wreath enclosing shelves on a plinth, one bearing an old dealer's paper label inscribed '12233-1085 circa 1790 Antique Urns from Colinridge house Malmsbury near Bath England,' the other with paper label stamped '18736', urns and pedestals associated
26in. (66cm.) high urns, 43in. (109cm.) high pedestals, 22in. (56cm.) wide, 22¼in. (57cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Colingridge House, Malmsbury, Wiltshire

Lot Essay

The form of the Grecian vases with guilloche-ribboned frieze relate to silver 'tea-vases' manufactured by Messrs. Boulton and Fothergill in the mid-1770's. The pedestals with their Grecian Cippus-altar cornices enriched with accroteria, palm-enriched friezes and laurel-wreathed doors, are designed in the early 19th century French antique manner and relate to patterns published in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808.