A PAIR OF DUTCH GILTWOOD TORCHERES

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$ 40 000
Auction dateClassic
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 1027472
Lot 44 | A PAIR OF DUTCH GILTWOOD TORCHERES
A PAIR OF DUTCH GILTWOOD TORCHERES

AFTER A MODEL BY AGOSTINO CARLINI AND A DESIGN BY PIETER DE SWART, PROBABLY THE HAGUE, PROBABLY 19TH CENTURY

Each with foliate top supported by a central stem elaborately carved with rocaille motifs, scrolling foliate and floral branches and enriched with a pair of dragons in combat, the pierced base headed by a dragon mask with stylized mane above a circular platform centered by fruits, on tripartite feet carved with C-scrolls and foliate motifs; restorations to the gilding

82 in. (108 cm.) high, 30 in. (76 cm.) diameter





Provenance

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

R. Baarsen, ‘High rococo in Holland: William IV and Agostino Carlini’, The Burlington Magazine (1998), pp. 172-183, figs. 29-30.

C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Visites privées, hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris, 1999, p. 9.
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