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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE ANNE, LADY HOLLENDEN VALLEY FARM EDGEWORTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE SOLD BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS (LOTS 1-37)

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY STAND

CIRCA 1755

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY STAND
CIRCA 1755
The rectangular moulded top above moulded inscrolled supports and a concave-sided tier, on four leaf-wrapped column supports and a further concave-sided canted rectangular tier, on scrolled moulded legs joined by an x-frame arched stretcher, on inscrolled feet on plinths
32½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 16¼ in. (41 cm.) wide; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The flowered and reeded display-stand, for an objet d'art, is designed in the George II 'picturesque' fashion with serpentined angle-brackets rising from garlanded pillars; while Roman acanthus enriches its altar-plinth's triumphal-arched stretcher and volute-scrolled trusses. It relates in particular to tripod candlestand patterns, such as those issued in Thomas Chippendale's, Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754 (pl. 122).

A related stand was at Sharpham, Devon and recently with Malletts (2004). The latter featured a tripod base and was fitted with a rectangular platform which supported a 'tempietto' with florally-wreathed columns (as in the present table's columns), worked entirely from a variety of naturally-coloured shells.

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