Lot Essay
See also lot 206 for a low clothes-press from Thoresby Hall.
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CIRCA 1870
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A PAIR OF MID-VICTORIAN GILTWOOD PELMETS
CIRCA 1870
Each in three sections, the outer sections projecting, symmetrically designed and profusely carved with C-scrolls, acanthus and flowers, refreshments in gold paint, inscribed in paint 'No. 2' and 'No. 3' on one pelmet
38½ in. (98 cm.) high; one pelmet 106 in. (269 cm.) wide in the central section, the angled sections each 65½ in. (166.5 cm.) wide; the other pelmet 100½ in. (255 cm.) wide in the central section, the angled sections each 50 in. (127 cm.) wide (2)
CIRCA 1870
Each in three sections, the outer sections projecting, symmetrically designed and profusely carved with C-scrolls, acanthus and flowers, refreshments in gold paint, inscribed in paint 'No. 2' and 'No. 3' on one pelmet
38½ in. (98 cm.) high; one pelmet 106 in. (269 cm.) wide in the central section, the angled sections each 65½ in. (166.5 cm.) wide; the other pelmet 100½ in. (255 cm.) wide in the central section, the angled sections each 50 in. (127 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Supplied to Sydney Pierrepont, 3rd Earl Manvers (1825-1900) for Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire.
Literature
C. Aslet, 'Thoresby Hall, Nottinghamshire - III', Country Life, 2 August 1979, p. 325, fig. 4 (one shown in situ in the Drawing-Room).
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