A PAIR OF SWEDISH NEOCLASSIC WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT TORCHERES
A PAIR OF SWEDISH NEOCLASSIC WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT TORCHERES

CIRCA 1800, THE TRIANGULAR PLINTHS LATER AND ORIGINALLY WITH FURTHER PEDESTAL BASES

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A PAIR OF SWEDISH NEOCLASSIC WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT TORCHERES
Circa 1800, the triangular plinths later and originally with further pedestal bases
Each with round gadrooned top above a fluted stem, on an acanthus-sheathed lower section with a leaf-tipped knop on a triangular base with husk frieze and reeded ball feet, redecorated
49in. (124.5cm.) high, 15½in. (39cm.) diameter
Provenance
Parish Hadley

Lot Essay

These crisply carved torcheres wrapped with stiff leaf carving are typical of Swedish late Gustavian production at the end of the eighteenth century. A closely related example with similar gadrooned circular platform and leaf-carved base and with original base is illustrated in H. Groth, Neoclassicism in the North: Swedish Furniture and Interiors 1770-1850, New York, 1990, p. 214, pl. 63. Highly similar stiff leaf carving is also found on a set of four Gustaf III white-painted and parcel-gilt tabourets stamped by the maker Johan Lindgren (active c. 1786, d.1800), sold from an important private collection of Swedish works of art, Christie's London, 8 December 1994, lot 572.

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