Torchère
Category
Historic Services / Lighting
Date
Unknown
Materials
Giltwood
Measurements
1622 x 380 mm
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Charlecote Park, Warwickshire
NT 533022.2
Summary
One of a pair of giltwood mermaid torcheres on carved tripod bases with carved swags and stretcher supports. Acquired in Milan in 1829. A three light candelabra sits on the top (533025)
Provenance
Presented to the National Trust by Sir Montgomerie Fairfax-Lucy (1896 – 1965), two years after the death of his father, Sir Henry Ramsay-Fairfax, 3rd Bt (1870 – 1944), with Charlecote Park and its chief contents, in 1946.