A pair of George III carved giltwood torcheres by Mayhew and Ince, 1772, possibly to a design by Robert Adam
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December 7, 05:45 PM GMT
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20,000 - 40,000 GBP
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A pair of George III carved giltwood torcheres by Mayhew and Ince, 1772, possibly to a design by Robert Adam
each with a circular dished top within a moulded and fluted and a ribbon-carved border with entrelac frieze and three naturalistically carved ram's heads, on outswept square beaded supports headed with husk swags and entwined with a snake, the legs with Greek-key pattern terminals, joined by concave fluted stretchers, on later bun feet, the tops numbered II and III, re-gilt
142cm. high, 63cm. wide; 4ft. 8in., 1ft.¾in.
From a set of four torchères supplied to Francis Thomas Fitzmaurice, 3rd Earl of Kerry (1740–1818), for No. 2 Portman Square, London in 1772;
Sold Messrs. Christie and Ansell, A Catalogue of The Magnificent Furniture ... of The Right Honourable The Earl of Kerry, 23 - 31 March 1778, lots 9 and 10;
Acquired from the above by Humphrey Sturt (d. 1786) for Crichel, Dorset;
Christie's London, Important English Furniture, 15 April 1982, lot 33.
Sold Messrs. Christie and Ansell, A Catalogue of The Magnificent Furniture ... of The Right Honourable The Earl of Kerry, 23 - 31 March 1778, lots 9 and 10;
Acquired from the above by Humphrey Sturt (d. 1786) for Crichel, Dorset;
Christie's London, Important English Furniture, 15 April 1982, lot 33.
A. Tipping, ‘Crichel – II, Dorset’, Country Life, 1925, p.823;
H. Roberts, ‘Precise and Exact in the Minutest Things of Taste and Decoration’: The Earl of Kerry’s patronage of Ince & Mayhew’, Furniture History, 2013, p.23.
H. Roberts, ‘Precise and Exact in the Minutest Things of Taste and Decoration’: The Earl of Kerry’s patronage of Ince & Mayhew’, Furniture History, 2013, p.23.