Live Auction 5467The Althorp Attic Sale - Including the Spencer Carriages
A COLLECTION OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GILT-GESSO ARCHITECTURAL CARVINGS AND SECTIONS
Lot 321

A COLLECTION OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GILT-GESSO ARCHITECTURAL CARVINGS AND SECTIONS

MAINLY CIRCA 1758-65, SOME ELEMENTS ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN VARDY AND JAMES 'ATHENIAN' STUART, PROBABLY FOR SPENCER HOUSE

Closed8 July 2010

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GBP 1,500

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A COLLECTION OF GEORGE III GILTWOOD AND GILT-GESSO ARCHITECTURAL CARVINGS AND SECTIONS
MAINLY CIRCA 1758-65, SOME ELEMENTS ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN VARDY AND JAMES 'ATHENIAN' STUART, PROBABLY FOR SPENCER HOUSE
Various sections of cornicing, dado and other mouldings, partly distressed, losses, contained in two boxes
Various sizes

Almost certainly supplied to John, 1st Earl Spencer (1734-1783) probably for Spencer House circa 1758-65, and by descent until removed to Althorp by Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975) in the 1930s.