A PAIR OF OCHRE-PAINTED PINE PEDESTALS

CIRCA 1930, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS

細節

A PAIR OF OCHRE-PAINTED PINE PEDESTALS
CIRCA 1930, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS
In the George II style, each with stepped top above dentil molding, the case with addorsed dolphins and ribbon-tied swags to each side, above a foliate-molded base, one stenciled 'MADE IN ENGLAND' with partial label inscribed 'From BA...Fe...Mr. M'
36in. (91.5 cm.) high, 20½ in. (52 cm.) square (2)

來源

Produced by J. M. Botibol, London ('painted two coats of white paint') for £65 in April 1933.

出版

A. O. Patterson, 'On the High Bluffs of Lake Forest near Chicago', Town and Country, 15 January 1934, p. 25.
S. M. Salny, The Country Houses of David Adler, 2001, p. 134.
L. Goff, Stone Houses: Colonial to Contemporary, Boston, 2002, p.172.
K. Coventry, D. Meyer and A. Miller, Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest, New York, 2003, p. 271.
S.E. Cohen and S.S. Benjamin, North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburb 1890-1940, New York, 2004, p. 280.
S. M. Salny, Frances Elkins: Interior Design, 2005, p. 64.

拍品專文

These pedestals apparently copy a pair which is reputed to have come from Devonshire House in Piccadilly, London and later sold Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2003, lot 155. Devonshire House was built for the 3rd Duke of Devonshire between 1733-35 by William Kent. Interestingly, the house was sold by the 8th Duke in 1920 (and demolished five years later) in which case the pair of pedestals may have come on the market around the time that the current pair was ordered.