A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TORCHÈRES

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Los 50 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TORCHÈRES
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD TORCHÈRES

ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE AND AFTER A MANUSCRIPT DESIGN, CIRCA 1770

Each with a stepped molded six-lobed platform on a tripod support and with pendant pierced stylized icicles alternating with ram's head masks issuing garlands of bell husks, the S-shaped molded legs ornamented with pendant husks above graduated cabochons enclosed by C-scrolls and edged with scrolling acanthus leaves, above a shaped platform with a molded edge centered by a surmounted flaming urn finial, the conforming apron with lion masks issuing swags of husks continuing to the similarly carved and molded S-scrolled legs, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

54 in. (137.2 cm.) high, 25 in. (63 cm.) wide, 25 in. (63 cm.) deep





Provenance

Possibly commissioned from Thomas Chippendale by James Ibbetson (1746-1795) for Denton Hall, near Otley, Yorkshire.

Almost certainly sold by order of the Honorable Lord Illingworth, P.C., the Valuable Remaining Contents of the Mansion, at Denton Park, near Ben Rhydding; Messrs. Hepper and Sons, 9-12 December 1924.

Sold by order of the Executors of the Late Mrs. Arthur Hill and Members of the Family, Denton Park, Yorkshire; Henry Spencer & Sons, 16-18 July 1975, lot 829.

With Simon Redburn, circa 1978.

With Clifford Wright Antiques, London.

Acquired from Ronald A. Lee, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1982.





Literature

Yorkshire Post [Leeds], 29 November 1924, Sales by Auction, p. 2, British Newspaper Archive.

C. Hussey, ‘Denton Hall, Yorkshire, the Home of Mrs. Arthur Hill’, Country Life, LXXXVI, 4 November 1939, p. 471, fig.3.

C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. I.

C. Gilbert, The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 206, figs. 376 and 377.





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