The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Townhouse
The Vision of Aso O. Tavitian | The Townhouse
A Pair of Late George II Carved Mahogany Marble-Topped Pedestals, Circa 1755
Estimate
60,000 - 100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
the square verde antico tops fixed above a leaf-carved moulding and concave frieze with flame-veneered tapered panelled shafts with an egg-and-dart moulding and waisted square socle, on bellflower-carved plinth bases with a spreading boldly C-scroll- and foliate-carved base
height 50 in.; the marble tops 9 in. square; the bases 13 in. square
127 cm; 23 cm; 33 cm
Quinneys Ltd., Chester, England, until 1957;
Hotspur Ltd., London;
Arthur Leidesdorf Collection, United States;
Sotheby's London, 27 June 1974, lot 34;
John Keil Ltd., London, 1982;
Ronald Phillips Ltd., London;
From whom acquired by Aso O. Tavitian at the Winter Antiques Fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, January 2017.
Antique Collector, 1957; advertisement with Quinneys Ltd.
Sotheby’s, ‘A Collection of English Furniture, Barometers & Clocks formed by a Gentleman residing in New York’, June 1974, pp. 70-71, lot 34.
Graham Shearing, 'Thomas Chippendale', Antique Collector magazine, June 1980, pp. 96-100, ill. P. 98 no number.
Burlington Magazine, March 1982; trade advertisement with John Keil Ltd., London.
Ronald Phillips, Fine Antique English Furniture, London 2016, pp. 80/81.
The Northern Antique Dealers’ Fair, Harrogate, 1957.
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