A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED GILTWOOD POLE-SCREENS

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A PAIR OF REGENCY ORMOLU-MOUNTED GILTWOOD POLE-SCREENS

Each with silvered arrowhead-finial on a cylindrical brass shaft, the oval screen with lion-mask finial flanked by foliage and pelt centred by a relief head amidst pleated green silk, the pierced spreading concave-sided triangular base with massive flexed supports below a stepped platform and leafy socle, on a gadrooned plinth base and block feet, restorations and re-gilt, one finial replaced
18in. (46cm.) wide; 66in. (167.5cm.) high (2)

來源

Possibly commissioned by Edward Clive, created Earl of Powis in 1804, for 45 Berkeley Square, London
Thence by descent to the 4th Earl of Powis (1862-1952), 45 Berkeley Square, London
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 6 December 1973, lot 95
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 9 July 1992, lot 33

出版

G. Beard & J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1986, p. 277, fig. 8

拍品專文

These 'hero's martial trophy' fire-screens conceived in the French 'Empire' style are composed of lance-supported 'medallion' shields draped with laurels and Hercules' lion-pelt and supported on 'altar' plinths with winged griffin feet. They derive from pole-screens designed by the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d. 1831) for his Duchess Street mansion, and illustrated in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, p. XVIII, while their chimera feet, which featured on his sofa (p. XXIV), relate to those of 'antique' candelabra illustrated in G.B. Piranesi's, Vasi, Candelabri e Cippi, 1778. Related pole-screens, including one centred by a mask, were engraved by George Smith in 1804 and published in Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808, pls. 108-9