A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL LOUIS-PHILIPPE WHITE MARBLE AND GILTWOOD FIVE-LIGHT FIGURAL TORCHERES
07.07.2022 17:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Verkauft
906000GBP £ 906 000
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ID 791825
Los 13 | A PAIR OF MONUMENTAL LOUIS-PHILIPPE WHITE MARBLE AND GILTWOOD FIVE-LIGHT FIGURAL TORCHERES
Schätzwert
£ 60 000 – 90 000
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Each modelled as a partially robed classical nymph bearing a cornucopia issuing five candle branches carved with leaves and berries and with scrolling terminals and petal and foliate driptrays, centred by a branch applied with leaves and flowerheads, on associated laurel wreath-moulded plinth, fitted for electricity
98 in. (250 cm.) high; 20.5 in. (52 cm.) wide; 20.5 in. (52 cm.) deep
Provenance
Probably King Louis-Philippe, Château de Neuilly (according to the 1884 Mentmore catalogue),
Acquired by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild or Hannah de Rothschild, wife of the 5th Earl of Rosebery for Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire, and by descent.
The 6th Earl of Rosebery, sold Mentmore, Sotheby's, 20 May 1977, lot 243 (then a set of four).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, Monaco, 23 February 1986, lot 733.
Literature
Mentmore [privately printed catalogue], Vol. II, Edinburgh, 1884, p. 50, nos. 40-43 as 'Statue of white marble representing a female draped figure, life-size, holding cornucopia. Workmanship French; period Louis XV' and three companion figures. One illustrated in the Dining Room, p. 47.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
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| Herkunftsort: | Westeuropa, Frankreich, Europa |
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| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen |
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| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Möbel und Lampen |
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