A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY DINING ROOM PEDESTALS

This elegant pair of dining room pedestals are evocative of virtuosity of the firm Ince and Mayhew. The use of stylized, often ebonized, husk swags are a conspicuous feature of a number of commissions in the later half of the 18th century. A similarly embellished pair of pedestals dating from circa 1780 were made for Sir James Lowther, 5th Bt. (later 1st Earl of Lonsdale) (1736-1802) for Whitehaven Castle, which was later remodelled by Robert Adam c.1766-75. They were subsequently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, deaccessioned and sold Christie’s New York, 27 October 2015, lot 116 ($197,000). Another finely carved pair of pedestals, sold as part of a dining suite, attributed to Ince and Mayhew circa 1770-72 were supplied to Hon. Edward Bouverie (1738-1810) for Delapré Abbey, Northamptonshire. They were likewise later in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, deaccessioned and sold Christie’s London, 6 July 2017, lot 12 (£137,000).