A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TORCHERES

The Property of The LORD BROCKET WILL TRUST Sold by Order of the Trustees (Lots 357-360)

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TORCHERES
BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE

Each with dished circular top edged with beading and laurel, on a turned tapering fluted support with stiff-leaf base above a band of guilloche and on a stiff-leaf cup base, the canted spreading concave-sided plinth centred on each side by a Diana mask in a beaded and fluted oval amidst acanthus scrolls, the panelled angles headed by rams' masks linked by ribbon-ties and laurel, with laurel-trails, the base edged with guilloche and on tapering stiff-leaf turned feet, both with traces of original gilding, a section of the fluted top missing, one shaft cracked, losses to applied decoration on the bases including one Diana mask
13¾in. (23.5cm.) diam., at top; 60¾in. (154cm.) high; 22in. (56cm.) wide, at base (2)

来源

Supplied to Sir Penistone Lamb, 1st Viscount Melbourne (1748-1819), for the Saloon of Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, circa 1773
Thence by descent to Admiral of the Fleet Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, G.C.B., Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire, sold Messrs. Foster house sale, 9 March 1923, lot 364
Acquired at that sale by Sir Charles Nall-Cain, Bt., 1st Lord Brocket (d. 1934)
Thence by descent at Brocket Hall

出版

James Paine, Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, 1783, pl. LVIII
H. Avray Tipping, Country Life, vol. LVIII, 4 July 1925, p. 96
H. Avray Tipping, English Homes, Period VI, vol. I, London, 1926, p. 19, fig. 30
C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. I, p. 263 and vol. II, p. 10, figs. 18-19 and p. 209, fig. 381

拍品专文

These torcheres or candlestands are among the most successful of all Chippendale's designs. Christopher Gilbert gives the greatest compliment of all: 'The solid form encrusted in delicate ornament creates an impression of concentrated richness which makes many of Adam's equivalent designs appear over-elaborate and fussy-his furniture seldom expresses the robust confidence of Chippendale's work' (op. cit., vol. I, p. 263)