A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRIPOD TORCHERE
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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRIPOD TORCHERE

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY TRIPOD TORCHERE
The circular gadrooned dished top above an acanthus-wrapped baluster shaft, on acanthus-headed cabriole legs with paw feet
41 in. (104 cm.) high; 20½ in. (52 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 6 February 1997, lot 155 (£8,225).
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Lot Essay

An almost identical torchère was sold from The Samuel Messer Collection, in these Rooms, 5 December 1991, lot 67 and another, again almost identical, was sold on behalf of the Michael Winch Will Trust, Boughton Monchelsea Place, Kent, Christie's South Kensington, 21 January 1998, lot 29.

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