A PAIR OF ITALIAN GILT-METAL GONDOLA LANTERNS

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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE GUY REED (LOTS 294-298) The following five lots are from the estate of the Late Guy Reed, a Yorkshire businessman and horse owner-breeder. The impressive 7 ft high chandelier was originally purchased from the Christie’s sale of Rudding Park, Harrogate, Yorkshire, 16-17 October 1972 where it hung in the Yellow Drawing Room. The Rudding Park estate was purchased by the Hon. William Gordon in 1807 who demolished the original house and commissioned the building of the present house in a new location. The majority of the fittings for Rudding Park were acquired or commissioned by Sir Joseph Radcliffe who purchased the house in 1824 from his father-in-law and furnished much of it with both old and new items over the following six years (C. Hussey, English Country Houses, Late Georgian, 1800-1840, London, 1958, pl. 144). The three 19th century marble busts come from Nidd Hall, Yorkshire, originally built in 1825 for Benjamin Rawson, a Bolton businessman (lot 298). After the death of Rawson, in 1844, Nidd Hall became the property of his daughter, Elizabeth. When she died in 1899 the estate was inherited by her great nephew, Henry Edmund, 14th Viscount Mountgarret. It then remained in the Mountgarret family for the following ninety years, after which, Guy Reed, a Yorkshire businessman, purchased it to accommodate his stable of first class racehorses.

A PAIR OF ITALIAN GILT-METAL GONDOLA LANTERNS

LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ITALIAN GILT-METAL GONDOLA LANTERNS
LATE 19TH CENTURY
Supported on polychrome and gilt decorated wood stands, the triform bases with panels painted scenes of winged putti
110 in. (279.5 cm.) high

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