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A GEORGE II WALNUT TRIPOD TELESCOPE-STAND
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A GEORGE II WALNUT TRIPOD TELESCOPE-STAND

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE II WALNUT TRIPOD TELESCOPE-STAND
MID-18TH CENTURY
Profusely carved with 'C' and foliate scrolls with rocaille and stylised icicles, slightly spiral three-sided baluster column, on splayed tripod supports extending to up-scrolled feet, restorations to one leg, the top ribbon-and-rosette carved moulding added later
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high
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The superbly carved stand reflects the eclectic 'picturesque' style named by the St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker, Thomas Chippendale, as 'Modern' in his Gentlemen and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754. No doubt its likely service as support for a costly brass-telescope accounts for its 'garden/park' embellishment, in keeping with tea-tables of fashionable garden-pavilions. A French-fashioned flowering trellis encircles the pillar's antique-tripod and vase-scrolled baluster, where ribbon-banded Roman foliage is accompanied by water-drips and bubbled scallops to evoke the ancient park grotto. In addition, Grecian palms enwrap the gothic-cusped flutes of its altar-hollowed capital and volute-scrolled 'claw'. The latter's bubble-embossed cartouches recall in particular Chippendale's enrichment of his celebrated 1753 'new-pattern' parlour-chair (ibid., pl. 12).