A Grand Pair of Pedestals Circa 1850
Constructed in bois noirci, with brass inlay work, splendid gilt bronze mounts, and Pietra Dura panels and having Carrara marble platforms; rising from plinth bases, with radiused angles, dressed with female masks to the centres and paterae to the angles; the columns of canted form, incorporating cupboards, with shelved interiors, behind the lockable Pietra Dura panelled doors; strong stiff leaf spandrels to the shoulders, and the platforms housed within running gilt bronze gadroons. Labelled with the owners name inside the cupboard doors. French. Provenance Olantigh Towers The Olantigh Estate was granted to the Kempe family by William the Conqueror. Olantigh House, whose origins were in 1508, was modified and extended, and passed into the hands of the Sawbridge dynasty. It was further modified, enlarged and furnished by the immensely rich Samuel Sawbridge Erle Drax in the mid 19th Century, passing to his son on his death in 1887. The house was largely destroyed in a disastrous fire in 1903.
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H:
59 in
150 cm
W:
26 in
65 cm
D:
19 in
47 cm
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