THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION TRIPOD TORCHERES, each with dished circular top and moulded edge above a fluted frieze divided by flowerheads and on rounded panelled supports headed by ram's masks and foliate trails, joined by a concave-sided triangular undertier with swagged drapery and on splayed key-pattern feet carved with stiff-leaves

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A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION TRIPOD TORCHERES, each with dished circular top and moulded edge above a fluted frieze divided by flowerheads and on rounded panelled supports headed by ram's masks and foliate trails, joined by a concave-sided triangular undertier with swagged drapery and on splayed key-pattern feet carved with stiff-leaves
the tops 11¾in. (30cm.) diam.; 53in. (135cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Possibly supplied to the 11th Viscount Kilmorey (d.1818) for his new house at Mourne Park, Kilkeel, Co. Down
Thence by descent

Lot Essay

In 1805, Robert Needham, 11th Viscount Kilmorey, was left the Mourne Park estate by William Nedham, whom he had never met and to whom he may have been distantly related. Soon afterwards he built a house in a fashionable Wyatt style in place of the earlier house. The original family seat at Shavington in Shropshire was photographed for Country Life in 1918 and among the furniture visible in these are a pair of the Irish hall-benches, the design of which has been associated with Wyatt. There are a pair of these hall benches at Castle Coole, Co. Fermanagh, which are thought to have been supplied by the Dublin firm of Kidd to Wyatt's designs. A pair of these hall-benches are illustrated in C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 91

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