A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT COMPOSITION TORCHERES

Lot 509
23.10.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 509 | A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT COMPOSITION TORCHERES
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$ 20 000 – 40 000
A PAIR OF GEORGE III WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT COMPOSITION TORCHERES

SUPPLIED BY JAMES WYATT, CIRCA 1785

Each circular dished top with two rows of pearl beading enclosing a band of guilloche, the lower edge with pendant scalloped ornament, on three incurved supports joined by a shelf with classical urn, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

57 in. (144.8 cm.) high, 20 in. (50.8 cm.) wide, 20 in. (50.8 cm.) deep





Provenance

Supplied by James Wyatt (1746-1813) to Sir Henry Oxenden, 6th Bart. (d. 1803) for the Drawing Room at Broome Park, Barham, Kent.

‌Acquired from Broome Park, Kent, by Dumbarton Oaks Museum, Washington, D.C.

The Collection of Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 7 October 1972, lot 179.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 7 June 1974, lot 192.

Property from the Collection of the Late Mrs. Frances Kelley Wood; Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 15 November 1975, lot 186.

Supplied by Parish-Hadley, New York, to Ann and Gordon Getty in 1978.



Literature

‌H. Tipping, 'Broome Park, Kent, the Seat of Sir Percy Oxenden, Bart.', Country Life, London, 6 July 1907, vol. 22, iss. 548, p. 23.

‌C‌. Latham & H. Tipping, In English Homes, London, vol. III, 1909, pp. 99-102, ill. p. 101.





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