Lot 194
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A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT TORCHERE
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A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT TORCHERE

LATE 19TH CENTURY, OF GEORGE III STYLE

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A LATE VICTORIAN MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT TORCHERE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, OF GEORGE III STYLE
The square top above a patera and key-pattern and egg-and-dart cornice above an acanthus husk mounted frieze and tapering stop-fluted shaft, on a foliate-carved moulded plinth, decorated on three sides, the top previously mounted
51¼ in. (130 cm.) high; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) square
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Lot Essay

The antique-fluted, taper-hermed and laurel-wreathed pedestal is designed in the George II 'Roman' style popularised by the Rome-trained architect William Kent (d. 1748). Its fluted and acanthus-flowered enrichments also feature in patterns for 'Therms for Busts or Lamps' issued in William Ince and John Mayhew's The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762, pl. 8.

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