Lot 19
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TRIPOD TORCHERES
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TRIPOD TORCHERES

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TRIPOD TORCHERES
Reduced in height
Each with a shaped triangular later yellow marble top above a lappeted frieze, on ram monopodia centred by a foliage-clasped finial and joined by a concave-sided platform stretcher with a vase of flowers and a foliage finial, on hoof feet, each with paper label, one inscribed in ink 'Brynkinalt Pm', the other inscribed 'Brynk.....' one finial with faint ink inscription 'OH.... Alton', regilt, previously with a swagged frieze
34¾ in. (88.5 cm.) high; 11½ in. (29 cm.) diam. of top (2)
Provenance
The Lords Trevor, Brynkinalt, Clwyd.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The 1790s Estimate Sketch Books of Gillows of London and Lancaster include a design for a lily-vase candelabrum on a related tripod stand with ram monopodia (L. Boynton, Gillow Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston 1995, fig. 217). A pair of related ram-monopodia stands at Heaton Hall, Lancashire is illustrated on the frontispiece of Heaton Hall, Manchester, 1988.

Brynkinalt, Clwyd, the ancient family seat of the Trevor family, was built in 1612 by Sir Edward Trevor. Two centuries later, the house was aggrandised by Arthur Hill-Trevor, 2nd Viscount Dungannon, and then in 1926 and again in 1952, when it was returned almost to its original appearance.

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