A pair of George III gilt-bronze mounted carved mahogany, lime and pine urns and pedestals by John Linnell, 1767, the urns designed by Robert Adam

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A pair of George III gilt-bronze mounted carved mahogany, lime and pine urns and pedestals by John Linnell

1767, the urns designed by Robert Adam

each urn with a removeable tapering lid carved with stop-fluting, foliate details and a guilloche rim, the gilt-bronze mounts with a conforming guilloche collar between scrolled handles on satyr masks, the wrythen fluted bodies with acanthus and foliate carved socle, one fully hollowed with a lead lining, the other with shallow unfinished cavity, the pedestals with a fluted frieze to three sides within acanthus and guilloche mouldings and centred with a paterae, the doors decorated with laurel swags and paterae, one enclosing a shelf, the other with two later shelves, on a plinth base, originally painted

154cm. high, 44.5cm. wide, 44.5cm. deep; 5ft.½in., 1ft. 5½in., 1ft. 5½in.