ID 1134466
Lot 38 | A PAIR OF LATE GEORGE III ORMOLU CANDLESTICKS
Valeur estimée
£ 70 000 – 100 000
BY BENJAMIN LEWIS VULLIAMY, LONDON, CIRCA 1805-10
Each with dished circular drip-pan and dart-moulded everted rim, the scrolled acanthus-cast nozzle above a rosette and gadrooned collar and acanthus-cast bulbous baluster stem with stiff-leaf spreading domed socle, the circular drum pedestal hatched with alternating Hamilton-cinquefoils and Beckford Latimer crosses flanked by chimerical winged-lions, on a domed spreading acanthus and palm-leaf cast circular base
14 ¼ in. (36 cm.) high; 5¾in. (14.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Commissioned by William Beckford for Fonthill Abbey.
John Farquhar.
Sold Phillips, Fonthill Abbey sale, 17 October 1823 (twenty-ninth day's sale), lot 1167 for £7.7s. or lot 1168 for £7.
Beatrice Lagrave Maltby, New York; by whose estate sold, Christie's, New York, 16 April 1994, lot 15 (as a set of four).
Literature
M. Snodin and M. Baxter, 'William Beckford's Silver', Burlington, November and December 1980, pp. 735-748 and pp. 820-834.
H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, 1986, vol. 1, p. 324, fig. 5.I.3.
C. Wainwright, 'Fonthill Abbey', The Romantic Interior, London, 1989, fig. 114.
Exhibited
New York and London, William Beckford, 1760-1844, An Eye for the Magnificent, 2001, no. 82.
| Technique appliquée: | Construction métallique |
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| Matériel: | Bronce |
| Époque historique: | Période géorgienne |
| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre, Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie: | Chandeliers |
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| Technique appliquée: | Construction métallique |
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| Matériel: | Bronce |
| Époque historique: | Période géorgienne |
| Lieu d'origine: | Angleterre, Europe du Nord, Europe, Royaume-Uni |
| Catégorie: | Chandeliers |
| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Tous les autres types d'objets |
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