AN EBONISED, PARCEL-GILT AND GILTMETAL MOUNTED PEDESTAL, of fluted cylindrical form, the lower part inset with foliate-cast mounts on circular stepped foot with oak and acorn carved plinth and square base

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AN EBONISED, PARCEL-GILT AND GILTMETAL MOUNTED PEDESTAL, of fluted cylindrical form, the lower part inset with foliate-cast mounts on circular stepped foot with oak and acorn carved plinth and square base
15½in. (39.5cm.) diameter at top; 46½in. (118cm.) high; 23½in. (59.7cm.) square at base

Lot Essay

The oak-wreathed pedestal is designed in the French 'antique' or 'Grecian' manner of the 1760s, and its prototype relates to those in the Wallace Collection, London, discussed by J.G. Mann in, The Wallace Collection Catalogue - Sculpture, London, 1981, pp. 163-5.

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