A PAIR OF GEORGE III STYLE GILT-BRONZE NINE-LIGHT GIRANDOLES, IN THE MANNER OF ROBERT ADAM, LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III STYLE GILT-BRONZE NINE-LIGHT GIRANDOLES, IN THE MANNER OF ROBERT ADAM, LATE 19TH CENTURY
each surmounted by a vase with an anthemion finial on a waisted foliate foot and dish issuing three scrolling and reeded branches terminating in a foliate stem and gadrooned dish with four ram masks and reeded drip-pan, above a wasited foliage and pearled stem and further dish, issuing six conforming branches, the ovoid body with trailed boss on three husk-trailed monopodia headed by a crowned and winged maiden-mask, joined by floral swags and a circular stretcher, terminating in hoof feet, on a concave-sided, canted, stepped triangular base with foliate bands, with frosted lamp shades, fitted for electricity
210cm. high, 60cm. wide; 6ft. 10⅝in., 1ft. 11⅝in.
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Probably acquired by Thomas Taylour, 3rd Marquess of Headfort, Headfort House, Ireland;
thence by descent at Headfort House, Ireland;
Christie's London, 14 November 1996, lot 45;
With Adrian Alan;
American Private Collection.
Adrian Alan, Catalogue II, p.26.
Adrian Alan, Catalogue VIII, pp.134-135, no.74.
C. Hussey, 'Headfort, Co. Meath', Country Life, 28 March 1936, part II, p.327, fig. 3.