LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III STAINED-PINE CORNER PEDESTAL
Late 18th Century
The later top above a scalloped frieze over acanthus sprays above a tapering body carved with a Classical maiden, urn and patera intertwined with bellflower swags on a rectangular egg-and-dart-headed plinth base
54½in. (138.5cm.) high, 12½in. (32cm.) wide, 12½in. (32cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 7 July 1994, lot 73.

Lot Essay

This type of pedestal for candelabrum, flower-vase or bust was described as a 'term' in Hepplewhite's Guide of 1788. The garlanded vestal figure in the centre presumably derives from a printed source; it also appears on a Wedgwood jasper vase illustrated in R. Reilly, Wedgwood, London, 1989, vol. I, fig. 1001.

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