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PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE ESTATE OF THE LATE EVELYN M. D'AMBRUMENIL, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE BENEFICIARY

A GEORGE I GILTWOOD TRIPOD TORCHERE

EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details

A GEORGE I GILTWOOD TRIPOD TORCHERE
EARLY 18TH CENTURY
With circular gadrooned top above a triangular pierced strapwork baluster column with three busts, on scrolled legs with eagle heads and scrolled feet, regilt and some regessoing
43 in. (109 cm.) high; 14 in. (35.5 cm.) diameter of top

Provenance

The Hochschild Collection, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1978, lot 6.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The torcheres lambrequined, fretted and hermed pillar relates closely to that of candlestands supplied in the late 1690s for Hampton Court Palace by Jean Pelletier; while its tripod 'claw' is carved with eagle-heads, relating to those of candlestands he supplied for the Palace in 1701 (T.Murdoch, 'Jean, Rene and Thomas Pelletier, Part 1', Burlington Magazine, November 1997, pp. 733 and 736, figs. 3 and 6).

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