Lot 65
65
A WHITE-PAINTED TORCHERE, the circular top above an acanthus capital, with a band of egg-and-dart above guilloche, the turned upper part of the shaft above acanthus, the baluster lower part on a canted spreading triangular panelled base centred by flowerheads and with laurel-carved angles, previously bronzed, grained and gilded, early 19th Century

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A WHITE-PAINTED TORCHERE, the circular top above an acanthus capital, with a band of egg-and-dart above guilloche, the turned upper part of the shaft above acanthus, the baluster lower part on a canted spreading triangular panelled base centred by flowerheads and with laurel-carved angles, previously bronzed, grained and gilded, early 19th Century
22in. (56cm.) diam.; 77in. (916cm.) high

Lot Essay

The architect Charles Heathcote Tatham (d.1842) had been impressed by candelabrum stands, based on antique prototypes, which he saw in Rome during his Italian tour in the 1790's and related examples with altar-pedestal bases featured in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808

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