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A PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN OIL-GILT TORCHERES
Lot 168

A PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN OIL-GILT TORCHERES

POSSIBLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1735

Closed17 April 2024

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A PAIR OF SOUTH GERMAN OIL-GILT TORCHERES
POSSIBLY AUGSBURG, CIRCA 1735
The shaped top on scrolling body carved with floral clusters and foliate sprays on incurvate legs and hoof feet, each with paper label with pencil inscription '8765 / 1' and '8765 / 2'
53 ¼ in. (135.2 cm.) high

Property from the Cummer Museum of Arts and Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida, sold to Benefit the Acquisitions; Christie's, New York, 24 November 2009, lot 301.

Specialist note

The lobed sections below the plinths of these distinctive torchères as well as the scrolled, ruffled leaves to their frames relate to a pair of silvered torchères from Augsburg at Schloß Rosenborg, Copenhagen. (H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, vol II, fig. 1085.)