A PAIR OF ITALIAN WALNUT FIGURATIVE PRICKET CANDLESTICKS

17TH CENTURY AND LATER

细节

A PAIR OF ITALIAN WALNUT FIGURATIVE PRICKET CANDLESTICKS
17th Century and later
Each in the form of a kneeling figure holding a turned dish with a spike on a platform, restorations and replacements including one hand
26 in. (66 cm.) high (2)

来源

The Marquesses of Salisbury, Hatfield House, Hertfordshire.

拍品专文

This pair of antique figures of basket-bearing youths may have formed part of the collection of antiquities introduced to Hatfield House, Hertfordhire, by James Brownlow Wiliams Gascoigne-Cecil, 2nd Marquess of Salisbury (d. 1868) who entertained Queen Victoria at his Elisabethan mansion in 1846.