ID 820124
Los 535 | A GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED GUERIDON
Schätzwert
$ 30 000 – 50 000
POSSIBLY DESIGNED BY ROBERT ADAM, CIRCA 1775
The gilt and polychrome painted circular tray top depicting a kneeling female angel holding a halo and a winged putto holding a torch, encircled by classical busts and trophies, over a frieze depicting alternating panels of angels and leaf-scroll diamonds centered by a mahogany lined drawer, on a giltwood tripod base with incurved supports headed by lion masks and strung with husk garlands, with a lower stretcher tier surmounted by an urn, and terminating in paw feet, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
28 1/2 in. (71.8 cm.) high, 16 in. (40.6 cm.) wide, 16 in. (40.6 cm.) deep
Provenance
Probably commissioned by Hugh, 1st Duke of Northumberland, for either Syon House, Middlesex or Northumberland House, The Strand, London.
By descent to Algernon Percy, son of Hugh Percy, Bishop of Carlisle, who married Emily Heber, daughter of Bishop Heber, in 1839.
Sold by direction of Algernon Heber-Percy Esq., removed from Hodnet Hall, Shropshire; Christie's, London, 22 November 1967, lot 114.
‌Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
G. Beard & J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 169, fig. 4.
S. Parissien, Adam Style, London, 1992, p. 210.
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| Material: | Acrylglas, Vergoldetes Holz, Japanische Lackwaren, Kunststoff |
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| Historische Ära: | Georgianische Periode |
| Herkunftsort: | Nordeuropa, Europa, Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Tische |
| Material: | Acrylglas, Vergoldetes Holz, Japanische Lackwaren, Kunststoff |
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| Historische Ära: | Georgianische Periode |
| Herkunftsort: | Nordeuropa, Europa, Vereinigtes Königreich |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen, Tische |
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