Thomas Moore
Head of Department
Lot 31TP
A pair of George III mahogany urns and pedestals
18 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £10,200 inc. premium
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A pair of George III mahogany urns and pedestals
Circa 1785, each urn with a fluted and oak-leaf carved lid surmounted by a pineapple finial, above a reeded, beaded and berried stiff-leaf clasped body with a Vitruvian scroll and honeysuckle frieze, over a guilloche collar, enclosing a lead-lined interior, the pedestal with a gadrooned edge above an acanthus frieze, with a door below surmounted by scrolled flowers and foliage centred by a palmette, one pedestal enclosing a lead-lined interior and the other enclosing one lead-lined drawer, one shelf and a door, 48cm wide x 48cm deep x 175cm high, (18 1/2in wide x 18 1/2in deep x 68 1/2in high) (2)
Footnotes
Some designs for closely comparable Neoclassical urns and pedestals to the offered lot, which were first published posthumously in 1787, are illustrated in G. Hepplewhite, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, pl.'s 35 & 36, New York, 1969.
Between 1775 and 1785 a pair of urns and pedestals with similarly carved ornament, including almost identical Vitruvian scroll friezes and gadrooned pedestal top edges, were provided by the Gillows firm for Lulworth Castle, Dorset. The latter being the family home of the Welds, who also resided at Stoneyhurst in Lancashire. These examples feature in S. Stuart, Gillows of Lancaster and London, 1730-1840, Vol. I, pl.'s 346 & 347, p. 310.
A pair of mahogany knife urns, dating to circa 1790, which also share many characteristics in common with the present urns were bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum by Dr T.R.C. Whipham through Barclays Bank Ltd. in 1945. One appears in M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1972, London, W/2, p. 190.