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THE PROPERTY OF COLONEL H.H. AYKROYD'S WILL TRUST, SOLD BY ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES AND OF THE LATE MRS H.H. AYKROYD, SOLD BY ORDER OF HER EXECUTORS (LOTS 1-47)

A MAHOGANY URN-STAND

OF GEORGE II STYLE, 19TH CENTURY

Details

A MAHOGANY URN-STAND
OF GEORGE II STYLE, 19TH CENTURY
The square top with pierced fretwork gallery above a plain frieze with a slide, on cabriole legs headed by cabochons, and acanthus-carved cabochon feet, with printed paper label for Temple Newsam House and Leeds City Art Gallery Exhibition inscribed in ink 'MR A. JOWETT, KILLINGHALL, HARROGATE'
24 in. (61 cm.) high; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) square

Provenance

A. Jowett, Esq., Killinghall, Harrogate, Yorkshire.

Exhibited

Leeds City Art Galleries, Temple Newsam House, Leeds.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

A virtually identical urn or kettle-stand, possibly the pair to this urn-stand was formerly in the collection of Nelson Grimaldi Seabra It was sold from his collection, Christie's, New York, 22 October 2003, lot 10 and is to be offered anonymously, Christie's, New York, 7 April 2006, lot 359. The latter was illustrated in P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture: The Age of Mahogany, London, 1906, p. 241, fig. 225.

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