CIRCA 1775

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TORCHERES
CIRCA 1775
Each circular top with acanthus-leaf and berried boss on channelled entrelac-carved tripod supports with concave-sided platform decorated with Vitruvian scrolls and terminating in Greek-key rectangular block feet
60 in. (152 cm.) high; 20 in. (51 cm.) wide

Provenance

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Lot Essay

The squared tripod supports with Greek key ornament to the feet on the present lot are related to the supports of a torchère designed by Robert Adam for the Drawing-room at Osterley Park, Middlesex (J. Bourne and V. Brett, Lighting in the Domestic Interior, Renaissance to Art Nouveau, London, 1991, p. 101, fig. 319). They also related to a pair of torchères possibly from the collection of William Randolph Hearst, sold Sotheby's, New York, 9 June 1990, lot 199 and a pair sold by Ronald Phillips Ltd., Christie's, South Kensington, 2 July 2014, lot 71.

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