CIRCA 1750

Details

A GEORGE II MAHOGANY KETTLE-STAND
CIRCA 1750
With a circular moulded top, baluster shaft and arched cabriole tripod base with pointed pad feet, repair to the top of the shaft
22¼ in. (57 cm.) high; 11 in. (28 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Almost certainly Ralph Moller.
Acquired from Hotspur, 4 August 1981.

Literature

Almost certainly the same kettle stand illustrated in R.W. Symonds, Furniture-making in 17th and 18th Century England, London, 1955, p. 134, fig. 189.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The celebrated collection of English furniture formed by Eric Moller in the 1940s and 1950s was one of several formed under the expert, almost mythical, guidance of the furniture historian R. W. Symonds. Moller's collection formed the basis of Symonds' Furniture Making in 17th and 18th Century England of 1955; if, as it appears, this tripod is indeed that illustrated then it too hails from the Moller Collection.

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