A Pair of George III style white-painted and parcel-gilt torchères in the style of Mayhew and Ince

each circular top with a gadrooned molded edge above a fluted frieze with lambrequin apron centering an acorn hanging knop, the fluted downswept supports with monied molding joined by a platform strecher mounted with drapery swags and surmounted by a flaming urn and ending in Greek-key form feet.

Overall good condition; one with a loss to one tassle of the lambrequin apron; some tassles may be replaced; small chips and losses to paint, gesso and gilding throughout; touching in to gilding in numerous places; overall with some dust build up and with scratches, nicks and chips to painted surface; solid and stable.
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The lambrequin aprons of these torchères are similar to those of a pair of pier tables at Broadlands, a Mayhew and Ince commission, see Hugh Roberts, 'The Ince and Mayhew Connection - Furniture at Broadlands - I,' Country Life, January 29, 1981, p. 289, fig. 1 and fig. 8 (detail of lambrequin).

 

A similar pair of George III giltwood and gilt-composition tripod torcheres possibly supplied to the 11^th Viscount Kilmorey, Mourne Park, Kilkeel, Co. Down, Ireland, was sold Christie's, London, July 7. 1994, lot 156.  Of related form and decoration, they also have fluted tops, drapery-swagged tiers and flaring legs ending in Greek key feet. 

 

 

Cf. P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, The Age of Satinwood, 1908, London: Lawrence & Bullen Limited, p. 95, fig. 88, property of Colonel Fearon Tipping, a 'harlequin' Pembroke table, veneered in harewood with oval  panels; illustrated in Macquoid and Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1988, rev. ed., vol. III, p. 267, fig. 7, formerly in the collection of the late Mr. H. Avray Tipping.

A similar pair of George III giltwood and gilt-composition tripod torcheres possibly supplied to the 11^th Viscount Kilmorey, Mourne Park, Kilkeel, Co. Down, Ireland, was sold Christie's, London, July 7. 1994, lot 156.  Of related form and decoration, they also have fluted tops, drapery-swagged tiers and flaring legs ending in Greek key feet.