Lot 104
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A PAIR OF GERMAN GILDED-OAK CORNER WALL BRACKETS
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A PAIR OF GERMAN GILDED-OAK CORNER WALL BRACKETS

ONE MID-18TH CENTURY, THE OTHER 18TH 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF GERMAN GILDED-OAK CORNER WALL BRACKETS
ONE MID-18TH CENTURY, THE OTHER 18TH 19TH CENTURY
Each with a dragon with outspread wings within a pierced rocaille foliate and floral surround, variations, regilt
One: 26½ in. (67 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 17½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep; the other: 27½ in. (70 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep (2)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The flowered brackets relate to a 1752 pattern by the architect George Dance for the London Mansion House and displaying the City's emblematical dragon issuing from a water-scalloped grotto (S. Jeffrey, The Mansion House, London, 1993, p. 175, fig. 146).

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