拍品 138
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A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD TORCHERE with concave-fronted triangular top on triple scrolling supports with floral rosettes and acanthus- carved bases with stiff-leaf fans and fruiting finials to the underside, on a further concave-fronted triangular plinth and claw feet

細節
A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD TORCHERE with concave-fronted triangular top on triple scrolling supports with floral rosettes and acanthus- carved bases with stiff-leaf fans and fruiting finials to the underside, on a further concave-fronted triangular plinth and claw feet
48in. (122cm.) high

拍品專文

Designed in the early 19th century 'antique' or 'Grecian' style, this guéridon-stand for vase or lights, in the manner of a tripod-altar, with its flowered, serpentined and acanthus-wrapped trusses and triangular plinth with bacchic-lion feet, relates to patterns published by George Smith in 1808