The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Townhouse

The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Townhouse

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 1153. A Pair of George II Giltwood and Gilt-Gesso Pedestals, Circa 1740, Attributed to Benjamin Goodison.

A Pair of George II Giltwood and Gilt-Gesso Pedestals, Circa 1740, Attributed to Benjamin Goodison

Estimate

60,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

the square tops above bow-tied festoons, the shafts with ribbons above trailing fruits and foliage above a shell at the base, on square plinths, one with a label reading PAIR 3003, the other inscribed 4


height 53 ½ in.; width 13 in; depth 13 in.

136 cm; 33 cm; 33 cm

Part of a set of six pedestals supplied to Jacob Bouverie, 1st Viscount Folkestone (1694-1761) at Longford Castle, Wiltshire, between 1737 and 1743;

By descent to his son, William Bouverie, 1st Earl of Radnor (1725-1776), thence by descent at Longford Castle;

With Christopher Gibbs, 1979;

Paul F. Walter Collection, sold Christie's New York, 26-27 September 2017, lot 110;

MacKinnon Fine Art, London;

From whom acquired by Aso O. Tavitian in 2018.

C. Hussey, ‘For the Connoisseur: Furniture at Longford Castle – I’, Country Life, 12 December 1931, p. 682, fig. 8.

C. Hussey, ‘Longford Castle – II’, Country Life, 19 December 1931, p. 699, fig. 7.

J. Cornforth, ‘Longford and the Bouveries’, Country Life Annual, London 1968, figs. 13 and 14.

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