Pair of Torchères

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Artist Unknown English

CultureEnglish

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Pair of Torchères

Datec. 1730–1740

PlaceStowe, United Kingdom

MediumCarved gilt-wood

DimensionsOverall (each): 62 5/8 × 24 1/2 in. (159.1 × 62.2 cm)

Credit LineThe Rienzi Collection, museum purchase funded by the Rienzi Society

Object number2017.377.1,.2

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Rienzi

Object Type

FURNITURE

ProvenanceSaid to be Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1675-1749) for Stowe, Buckinghamshire; [Probably sold, lot 806 in the Christie’s auction, August 1848]; Unknown private collection; [Glaisher & Nash]; [Mallett, London]; Private collection, England; [Apter-Fredericks, London]; purchased by MFAH, 2018.
Published References Glaisher & Nash, The Grosvenor House Antiques Fair Handbook, illustrated, p.43 G. Jackson-Stops, The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Rufus Bird, Wolf Burchard, Kate Heard, Kathryn Jones, and Desmond Shawe-Taylor, The First Georgians; Art and Monarchy: 1714 – 1760. London (Royal Collection): University of Chicago Press, 2014

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