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    Important English Furniture including Property from The Kersey Coats Reed House

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    27 October 2006

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    • A PAIR OF OCHRE-PAINTED PINE P
    Lot 217

    A PAIR OF OCHRE-PAINTED PINE PEDESTALS

    CIRCA 1930, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS

    Price realised

    USD 14,400

    Estimate

    USD 3,000 - USD 5,000

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    A PAIR OF OCHRE-PAINTED PINE PEDESTALS
    CIRCA 1930, SUPPLIED BY FRANCES ELKINS
    In the George II style, each with stepped top above dentil molding, the case with addorsed dolphins and ribbon-tied swags to each side, above a foliate-molded base, one stenciled 'MADE IN ENGLAND' with partial label inscribed 'From BA...Fe...Mr. M'
    36in. (91.5 cm.) high, 20½ in. (52 cm.) square (2)

    Provenance

    Produced by J. M. Botibol, London ('painted two coats of white paint') for £65 in April 1933.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    A. O. Patterson, 'On the High Bluffs of Lake Forest near Chicago', Town and Country, 15 January 1934, p. 25.
    S. M. Salny, The Country Houses of David Adler, 2001, p. 134.
    L. Goff, Stone Houses: Colonial to Contemporary, Boston, 2002, p.172.
    K. Coventry, D. Meyer and A. Miller, Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest, New York, 2003, p. 271.
    S.E. Cohen and S.S. Benjamin, North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburb 1890-1940, New York, 2004, p. 280.
    S. M. Salny, Frances Elkins: Interior Design, 2005, p. 64.


    Lot Essay

    These pedestals apparently copy a pair which is reputed to have come from Devonshire House in Piccadilly, London and later sold Sotheby's, London, 3 July 2003, lot 155. Devonshire House was built for the 3rd Duke of Devonshire between 1733-35 by William Kent. Interestingly, the house was sold by the 8th Duke in 1920 (and demolished five years later) in which case the pair of pedestals may have come on the market around the time that the current pair was ordered.

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