PROBABLY BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1770-80

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III PINE PEDESTALS
PROBABLY BY THOMAS CHIPPENDALE, CIRCA 1770-80
Each with a square top and guilloche-carved frieze above a rounded, fluted body centred by a large beaded rosette, above a lotus-carved collar, the tapering body with applied anthemion and husk swag, above
a concave-moulded and cut-cornered plinth, originally painted, the tops replaced
47¾ in. (121.5 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

Property formerly in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warner; Christie's East, New York, 17 September 1991, lot 336.

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Lot Essay

A pair of pedestals of this same design are in the collection of the Earls of Harewood at Harewood House, Yorkshire. A mahogany pair of this design is shown in situ in the Entrance Hall of Home House, Portman Square (illustrated in Dr. M. Whinney, Home House, No. 20 Portman Square, London, 1969, p.85). The latter may have been acquired for the Robert Adam-designed townhouse by the late Samuel Courtauld, founder of the Courtauld Institute, who lived there from 1927 to 1932.

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