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A PAIR OF GERMAN GILTWOOD TRIPOD TORCHERES
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A PAIR OF GERMAN GILTWOOD TRIPOD TORCHERES

19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GERMAN GILTWOOD TRIPOD TORCHERES
19TH CENTURY
Each with circular dished top with gadrooned edge, on a pierced shaft with ribbed panels and scrolled rockwork, on a pierced scrolling base carved with dragons, on a pierced concave-sided undertier, on pinched square feet, losses to the gilding and carving
64½ in. (164 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) diameter (2)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品專文

The antiquarian Louis Quatorze gueridon-stands for torcheres and flower-vases have pillars raised on 'altar' tripods, whose ribbon-scrolled trusses are entwined by Roman 'draco' or winged serpents in the manner popularised by Bernard Toro (d. 1731) 'Architecte du Roi', in his Livres de Tables de Diverses Formes, 1717.