CIRCA 1755

Details

A PAIR OF GEORGE II GILTWOOD WALL BRACKETS
CIRCA 1755
Each shaped top with pierced leaf-carved border, supported on asymmetrical arrangement of S-scrolls with rockwork and hung with swags and pendants of roses and leaves
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high, 12 ½ in. (32 cm.) wide, 8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) deep, the slightly larger

Provenance

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., New York, 1948-1960 at Kykuit.
Estate of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., acquired May 1963.

Literature

D. Fennimore et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Decorative Arts, New York, 1992, vol. IV, p. 271, no. 271.

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Lot Essay

This handsome pair of gilt wall brackets had been in Mother's sitting room on the second floor of Kykuit. Subsequently, that room was changed by my stepmother, Martha Baird, and we found these brackets in a closet when there was a partial distribution of some of the Kykuit furniture in 1963. The pair of Meissen sparrow hawks (No. 79), which we have placed on these brackets, are the same model which Mother had in her sitting room at 740 Park Avenue. We acquired our pair of hawks in 1949; Mother's pair went to my brother Laurance in 1958.
D. R.

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