A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED FLUORSPAR AND MARBLE CORINTHIAN COLUMNS, ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1770
A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED FLUORSPAR AND MARBLE CORINTHIAN COLUMNS
ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1770
Each on a square plinth with stiff-leaf frieze and inset with green-backed fluorspar panels, on a berried laurel foot and stepped base of chamfered white marble and Ashford black marble, restorations
20 ½ in. (52 cm.) high
Provenance
Probably those sold at the sale of Boulton and Fothergill's stock at James Christie's saleroom in Pall Mall, 13 April 1771 (Third Day's sale), lot 61 - 'A pair of large sideboard alabaster candle-sticks with corinthian capitals and other ornaments in or moulu' - for £9 19s 6d to Mr Duntze.
Probably Mr John Duntze (1735-1795), MP for Tiverton (1768-1795), created Baronet in 1774, possibly at Rockbeare Manor, Devon.
Charles Orr Stanley (1899-1989), 3 Lowndes Place, Belgravia, and subsequently Lisselan House, County Cork, Ireland, and by descent.
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A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED FLUORSPAR AND MARBLE CORINTHIAN COLUMNS
ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHEW BOULTON, CIRCA 1770
Each on a square plinth with stiff-leaf frieze and inset with green-backed fluorspar panels, on a berried laurel foot and stepped base of chamfered white marble and Ashford black marble, restorations
20 ½ in. (52 cm.) high
Provenance
Probably those sold at the sale of Boulton and Fothergill's stock at James Christie's saleroom in Pall Mall, 13 April 1771 (Third Day's sale), lot 61 - 'A pair of large sideboard alabaster candle-sticks with corinthian capitals and other ornaments in or moulu' - for £9 19s 6d to Mr Duntze.
Probably Mr John Duntze (1735-1795), MP for Tiverton (1768-1795), created Baronet in 1774, possibly at Rockbeare Manor, Devon.
Charles Orr Stanley (1899-1989), 3 Lowndes Place, Belgravia, and subsequently Lisselan House, County Cork, Ireland, and by descent.
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