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Lot Essay
These elegant stands for 'vase' candelabra flower-vases are designed in the George III 'Roman' fashion popularised by Robert Adam's, Works in Architecture, 1774; and G.B. Piranesi, Vasi, Candelabri e Cippi, Rome 1778.
They relate to Adam's 'Etruscan' candelabrum designs of the 1770's, and to those designed in the early 1780's, supplied to Richard Myddelton (d.1775) for Chirk Castle, Wales, by the Golden Square firm of Messrs Mayhew and Ince, who have also been credited with the manufacture of a ram-headed candelabrum stand acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum (J. Bourne, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, 1991, fig 319; and M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, 1982,p.46 fig F/1c; p. 81 fig J/2b and p.83 fig. J/4)
In particular they relate to one, wreathed by palms and festooned with laurels, supplied at this period for the Saloon at Uppark, Hampshire (photographed in The Saloon in 1910, see C. Rowell, Uppark, National Trust Guide, 1995, p. 59).
Their acanthus-wrapped pillars is a feature that W. & J. Linnell of Berkeley Square adopted from the Grecian fashion engravings issued by the Parisian architect J.C. Delafosse, and so these stands could alternatively prove to have been manufactured by them.
Further property from Comte et Comtesse Edouard Decazes, une collection à Chantilly, will be offered in a single-owner sale at Christie's, Paris, 16 November 2006.
They relate to Adam's 'Etruscan' candelabrum designs of the 1770's, and to those designed in the early 1780's, supplied to Richard Myddelton (d.1775) for Chirk Castle, Wales, by the Golden Square firm of Messrs Mayhew and Ince, who have also been credited with the manufacture of a ram-headed candelabrum stand acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum (J. Bourne, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, 1991, fig 319; and M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, 1982,p.46 fig F/1c; p. 81 fig J/2b and p.83 fig. J/4)
In particular they relate to one, wreathed by palms and festooned with laurels, supplied at this period for the Saloon at Uppark, Hampshire (photographed in The Saloon in 1910, see C. Rowell, Uppark, National Trust Guide, 1995, p. 59).
Their acanthus-wrapped pillars is a feature that W. & J. Linnell of Berkeley Square adopted from the Grecian fashion engravings issued by the Parisian architect J.C. Delafosse, and so these stands could alternatively prove to have been manufactured by them.
Further property from Comte et Comtesse Edouard Decazes, une collection à Chantilly, will be offered in a single-owner sale at Christie's, Paris, 16 November 2006.