Live Auction 2374500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe Including Oriental Carpets and Including Sculpture from the Collection of Michael Hall
A GEORGE III GILT-WALNUT ATHENIENNE
Lot 72

A GEORGE III GILT-WALNUT ATHENIENNE

CIRCA 1780

Closed11 June 2010

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A GEORGE III GILT-WALNUT ATHENIENNE
CIRCA 1780
With a later copper liner, the frieze decorated with flower heads and guilloché decorated supports around a spirally fluted tapering central support with stiff-leaf and berry carved base, raised on paw feet, re-gilt
37½ in. (95 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 10 April 1986, lot 50.

Specialist note

A torchère of similar form but capped by figural supports was in the Tapestry Room at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire (see C. Latham, In English Homes, London, 1909, p. 431.