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A GEORGE II GILTWOOD AND GILT-BRONZE CHANDELIER
THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO HENRY FLITCROFT THE CARVING ATTRIBUTED TO MATTHIAS LOCK CIRCA 1745
With a spread-winged eagle clasping thunderbolts above a shell-carved pedestal bordered with floral-carved strapwork terminating in smaller shells on a tripartite base headed with masks issuing floral garlands and three scrolling arms terminating in a mask emitting four scrolling floral candle arms with foliate cast gilt-metal candle sockets and shell-bordered drip pans above a foliate and floral garland terminal with a metal ring
48 in. ( 122 cm.) high, 53 in. ( 134.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Commissioned by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 4th Earl of Shaftesbury (1711-1771), for the State Dining Room, St. Giles's House, Dorset.
By descent to the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, by whom sold; Christie's, London, 26 June 1980, lot 89.
Neil Sellin, Wellington Antiques, New York.
French and Company, New York.
The Estate of Wendell Cherry; Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1994, lot 65.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
'St. Giles's House, Dorsetshire, A seat of the Earl of Shaftesbury,' Country Life, 15 March 1915, p. 337 (illustrated) and 20 March 1915, pp. 373-374 (illustrated).
P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, vol. 2, London,1924-1927, pp. 10, 12; fig. 24; rev ed., 3 vols., 1954, vol I, pp. 329, 339; fig. 20.
O. Brackett, An Encyclopedia of English Furniture, London, 1927, p. 251 (illustrated).
M. Jourdain, 'Furniture at St. Giles's House, Dorset,' Country Life, 13 April 1935, pp. 380-381.
A. Oswald, Country Houses of Dorset, London,1935, fig. 147; rev. ed., 1959, fig. 160.
C. Hussey, 'St. Giles's House, Dorset, The Home of the Earl of Shaftesbury,' Country Life, 17 September 1943, pp. 509-510, figs. 3, 6.
O. Brackett, English Furniture Illustrated, rev. ed., London,1950, p. 286, pl. CLV.
R. W. Symonds, 'Rococo at St. Giles's House,' The Antiques Collector, December 1955, p. 264.
R. W. Symonds, 'Lighting in the 18th -Century Home,' Country Life Annual, London, 1958, pp. 94-95, fig. 10.
Y. Hackenbrock, English Furniture, The Collection of Irwin Untermyer, vol. I, Boston,Harvard University Press, 1958, fig. 194.
R.C. Lines, 'My House at St. Giles's,' Connoisseur, vol. CXLIV, August 1959, pp. 72-73 (illustrated).
R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, pp. 179-180, fig. 15.
E.R. Delderfield, West Country Historic Houses and their Families, 1970, vol 2, p. 90.
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, vol. V, pp. 95-96, pl 77.
L. Synge, Great English Furniture, London 1991, p. 91.
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