FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY IRISH

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A PAIR OF GILTWOOD AND LACQUERED BRASS TORCHERES
FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY IRISH
Each with circular platform on three rectangular columns with ram heads and animal leg feet, joined by trellis and a pierced stretcher
46½ in. (118 cm.) high; 14 in. (36 cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

Miss Naomi Overend, Airfield, Dundrum, Co. Dublin, sold by the Trustees of the Dromartin Trust, Hamilton, Osborne & King, 28 March 1995, lot 232.

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Lot Essay

This form of altar tripod torchere relates to designs by Thomas Hope illustrated in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pls. IX and XIX, no. 1. The model was obviously produced in both metal and giltwood as other examples are known: a bronze and giltmetal torchere with dish in the top sold Sotheby's, Norfolk, 11 October 1994, lot 259 and a giltwood torchere sold anonymously, Sotheby's, London, 21 February 1997, lot 196. The latter was previously in the collection of Mrs A. E. Roach. An almost identical torchere is illustrated in H. Cescinsky, English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century, London, n.d., vol. III, p. 19, fig. 5. A pair of Regency cast-iron colza lamps on similar torchere stands, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's, London, 13 June 2001, lot 147.
Both the present lot and an identical one in a private collection come from Ireland, so there is a possibly that they are Irish.

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