拍品 19
19
Various Properties
A PAIR OF REGENCY PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PLASTER NODDING-HEAD FIGURES by Robert Shout, each with a Chinoiserie figure with a natural hair-braid holding a candlestick with foliate-sprays surmounted by an urn-shaped nozzle, on a later square slate base, signed on the back P(ublished) Dec(embe)r 2(n)d 1809 by R. Shout, Holborn, London, the decoration refreshed

细节
A PAIR OF REGENCY PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT PLASTER NODDING-HEAD FIGURES by Robert Shout, each with a Chinoiserie figure with a natural hair-braid holding a candlestick with foliate-sprays surmounted by an urn-shaped nozzle, on a later square slate base, signed on the back P(ublished) Dec(embe)r 2(n)d 1809 by R. Shout, Holborn, London, the decoration refreshed
15in. (38cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

These polychromed plinth-supported figures of welcoming Chinese torch-bearers are incised with the 1809 patent-mark of Robert Shout (d. circa 1826) of 18 High Holborn. Shout advertised 'the Nobility & Gentry that he ha(d) ready for Inspection & Sale... a large Assortment of Figures & Tripods for holding Lamps or Candles, of various Patterns & Dimensions, fitted up in a new & fashionable Style' at his premises. Shout attracted high class patronage including the Duke of Atholl and Lord Monson.
These candlesticks evolved from the Louis XVI Chinese-figure candelabra, such as George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV, moved in the early 19th Century from his Chinese Drawing Room at Carlton House, London, to his Marine Pavilion, Brighton, where they were joined by Cantonese manufactured nodding figures (see: T. Sheraton, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1792, and J. Dinkel, The Royal Pavilion, Brighton, London, 1983, p. 80)