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October 14, 11:42 AM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A pair of Victorian silver four-light candelabra, Robert G🗹arrard, London, 1837
on openwork domed bases, cast and chased with foliage and rocaille, engraved three times with a coat-of-arms, the stems formed as a male Bacchic figure, his foot resting on a ewer and with a goat at his side and as a female Bacchic figure with a panther at her side, each supporting a putto who holds the detachaﷺble branches with fruiting vine ornament
height 33 1⁄2 in.; weight 656 oz.; 85 c💞m.; 20,410gr.
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Paire de chandeliers à quatre lumi🌜ères en argent par Robert Garrard, Londres, 1837
chacun sur une base bombée ajourée, moulurée et ciselée de feuillages et motifs rocaille, gravée sur trois côtés d'armoiries dans un cartouc꧂he, les fûts en forme de bacchante, chacune soutenant un putto sous des branchages
height 33 1⁄2 in.; weight 656 oz.; 85 cm.; 20,💫410gr.
Collection of Dr. Peter D𓃲. Sommer (purchased 1997)
Christie's London, 4 December 2014, lot 214
Koopman Rare Art, London, 2014
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Collection de Dr. Peter D. Sommer (acheté 1997)
Christie's L🍨ondres, 4 décembre 2014, lot 214
Koopman Rare Art, Londres, 2014
The arms are those of Long impaling Colquhoun for Walter Long (10 October 1793 – 31 January 1867) of Rood Ashton, near Trowbridge, Wiltshire, eldest son of Richard Godolphin Long (1761-1835) and his wife, Florentina (1760-1835), a daughter of Sir Bourchier Wrey, 6th B💜t. (1715-1784). Mr. Long, who was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church College, Oxford, was married on 2 August 1819 at Easter Kilpatrick, Killermont, Dunbartonshire, Scotland to his first wife, Mary Anne (d. 1856), daughter of Archibald Campbell Colquhoun (né Campbell, d. 1820), sometime Lord Register of Scotland and M.P. for Elgin Bughs from 1807 to 1810 and for Dunbartonshire from 1810 until his death.
The Rood Ashton estate had long been in the possession of the Long family when Richard Godolphin Long commissioned the architect, Jeffry Wyatville to design a new house to replace the existing mansion. The building w✤as completed by 1808 but following Long’s death in 1835 his son, Walter undertook a programme of refurbishment overseen by Thomas Hopper, an architect known for his country houses who had been much favoured by George IV. It is almost ꦓcertain that this present pair of Garrard candelabra were intended as part of the decorations of the new Rood Ashton House, which was not finally completed until 1847.
‘We regret to announce the death of Mr. Walter Long, which took place at his winter residence, Torquay, about 11 o’clock on Thursday night in the last weeks at the advanced age of 73. . . . He represented the Northern division of this country for 39 years in the Conservative interest, having succeeded to the seat of his father, Mr. Richard Godolphin Long. He retired from public life at the last general election. . . . As a politician, he was thoroughly honest, straightforward and consistent; as a landlord, he was ever willing to devote himself to the interests of his tenants, and to carry out any suggestion for their welfare. He was courteous and kind to all, the poorest person always receiving politeness and consideration at his hands. The poor agricultural labourers and their families found in him a warm friend and benefactor. . . . [He married] secondly, in 1857, Lady Bishopp, widow of Sir Cecil Bishopp, Bart., and daughter of the late Admiral Sir James Hillyar, K.C.B.’ (The North Wilts Herald, Swindon, Saturday, 9 February 1867, p. 5e)
The Long family teꦐnure of the Rood Ashton estate came toಌ an end in 1930 when the house and remaining 4,100 acres were put up for auction.
In December 1951, when the decision had been made to demolish Rood Ashton House, the auctioneers Tilley & Culverwell began a series of sales to dispose of ‘the easily removable Timbers, Floorings, Windows, Fittings, etc.,’ including a large number of doors: brass-studded double and single, carved oak reception doors and panelled surrounds. The sale also included the ‘Magnificent Carved Oak STAIRCASE and Balustrading . . . Stone Ornamental FOUNTAINS, Balustrading, etc.’ (The Wiltshire Times, Trowbridge, Saturday, 8 December 1951, p. 6f) Much of the house, ‘now gutted and a ruin . . . on a vast scale, and most impressive in its presꦫent state’ (as seen by Nikolaus Pevsner) was eventually demolished in the 1970s.
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