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Lot Essay
Possibly supplied to Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford for Waldershare House, Kent.
These torcheres are designed in the George III 'antique' manner, conceived as Roman 'athenienne' tripods with bacchic ram monopodiae and hollow-sided 'altar' base.
This pair of tocheres would seem to be originally from a set of four. They were possibly commissioned by Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (d. 1790) for Waldershare House, Kent. A matching pair of torcheres (retaining foliate-wrapped tapering shelves now lacking on this pair) was sold from the collection of Claus von Bulow, Sotheby's New York, 28-29 October 1988, lot 391. A pair also with tapering shelves are illustrated in a photograph of the Hall at Waldershare (courtesy of National Monuments Records, London). Related hoofed tripods were supplied by Messrs Gillows of Oxford Street in 1792 to Dryrham Park, Gloucestershire and were sold by Christie's London, 2 Februrary 1995, lot 100.
These torcheres are designed in the George III 'antique' manner, conceived as Roman 'athenienne' tripods with bacchic ram monopodiae and hollow-sided 'altar' base.
This pair of tocheres would seem to be originally from a set of four. They were possibly commissioned by Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (d. 1790) for Waldershare House, Kent. A matching pair of torcheres (retaining foliate-wrapped tapering shelves now lacking on this pair) was sold from the collection of Claus von Bulow, Sotheby's New York, 28-29 October 1988, lot 391. A pair also with tapering shelves are illustrated in a photograph of the Hall at Waldershare (courtesy of National Monuments Records, London). Related hoofed tripods were supplied by Messrs Gillows of Oxford Street in 1792 to Dryrham Park, Gloucestershire and were sold by Christie's London, 2 Februrary 1995, lot 100.