拍品专文
This design is closely related to one published in Thomas Johnson's Twelve Girandoles of 1755, pl. 11 (E. White, The Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 383)
The Property of
MISS OLIVIA de HAVILLAND
A PAIR OF GILTWOOD LARGE SINGLE-LIGHT GIRANDOLES
细节
A PAIR OF GILTWOOD LARGE SINGLE-LIGHT GIRANDOLES
Each with shaped plate within a C-scroll and rockwork frame with a music-making chinoiserie figure seated on a C-scroll surmounted by a scrolling foliate branch terminating in a gadrooned nozzle, with a dog, a goat and a cow nearby, various smaller plates within architectural settings, the top with a phoenix with spread wings below a pagoda-shaped finial, minor losses to carving, one nozzle with drip-pan lacking, the decoration refreshed
74½in. x 40in. (189cm. x 102cm.) (2)
Each with shaped plate within a C-scroll and rockwork frame with a music-making chinoiserie figure seated on a C-scroll surmounted by a scrolling foliate branch terminating in a gadrooned nozzle, with a dog, a goat and a cow nearby, various smaller plates within architectural settings, the top with a phoenix with spread wings below a pagoda-shaped finial, minor losses to carving, one nozzle with drip-pan lacking, the decoration refreshed
74½in. x 40in. (189cm. x 102cm.) (2)
来源
Bought from Christopher Fry, Esq., 37 Blomfield Road, London, W9 on 25 January 1960