LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NORTH-EUROPEAN GILTWOOD TORCHERES
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with a reeded circular Sienna marble top on three outswept monopodia supports headed by a rams' mask and surrounding a flaming finial, on a tripartite concave plinth base
122 cm. high (2)

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Lot Essay

The tall stand for vase or candelabrum, intended for the corners of a room and derived from the Roman tripod altar with bacchic ram monopodia, relates to a pattern popularised by the Rome-trained architect Robert Adam and published in R. and J. Adams' Works in Architecture, 1773 (pl. 8). Related stands were supplied in 1786 for Langley Park, Norfolk (advertised by Hotspur in Country Life, 13 October 1988).

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