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472 VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL MAHOGANY OCCASIONAL TABLE LATE 19TH CENTURY the moulded octagonal top, above a cluster column and raised on a channel-moulded tripod base 47cm diameter, 72cm high Provenance: Paul Reeves, London
£300-500
473 MANNER OF SIR NINIAN COMPER PAIR OF PAINTED WOOD GOTHIC REVIVAL TORCHÈRES, CIRCA 1860 each of octagonal section with gilt and polychrome decoration, the moulded capitals with pierced gallery above tall column support on a corresponding moulded base with later plinth (2) 170cm high Note: These torchères are possibly adapted from riddel posts. Riddel posts were situated around the altar, which supported the rails and altar curtains, and perhaps a cloth stretched above. Altar curtains were often known as ‘riddels’ (from the French rideau, a word also used for ordinary domestic curtains). Several riddel posts designed by Sir Ninian Comper are still in existence and include examples at Ely Cathedral, St. Wilfrid’s, Cantley and the Church of St Paul, Bedford.
£1,000-1,500
474 GOTHIC REVIVAL OAK FRAMED THRONE CHAIR, CIRCA 1860 with chamfered decoration, the back with upholstered panel in later Watts of Westminster silk damask, above open arms with arcaded supports enclosing a stuffover seat on square blocked legs linked by stretchers 67cm wide, 101cm high, 70cm deep Provenance: Liberty, London
£500-800
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