拍品 158
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A PAIR OF GEORGE II GREEN AND CREAM-PAINTED TORCHERES, the design attributed to James Paine, each with a stepped rectangular top and foliate edge on a panelled square tapering shaft with egg-and-dart moulding and on a stepped plinth edged with foliage, various earlier decorations including simulated porphyry

细节
A PAIR OF GEORGE II GREEN AND CREAM-PAINTED TORCHERES, the design attributed to James Paine, each with a stepped rectangular top and foliate edge on a panelled square tapering shaft with egg-and-dart moulding and on a stepped plinth edged with foliage, various earlier decorations including simulated porphyry
11¾in. (30cm.) square; 86in. (168cm.) high (2)

拍品专文

The carved mouldongs around the cornice of these torcheres corresponds to a cornice design by James Paine that is preserved at Raby. The design is almost certainly for a room in the South Front at Raby on which he worked around 1745. Much of his executed work was swept away in subsequent alterations