Lamp stanchion
Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1925
Materials
Giltwood
Measurements
1485 mm (Height); 305 mm (Diameter)
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Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771880.1
Summary
Gilded lamp stanchion with some royal blue painted decoration. Three bun feet on cavetto base with cable moulding surmounted by acanthus carving enveloping lower portion of stem and splaying out onto base. Above this is a carved annulus from which the stanchion broadly tapers with elongated leaf and acanthus mouldings to a channelled section, punctuated by a simple moulding, the channels infilled with paint. The whole terminates in a cup-shaped figure with scrolled decoration beneath the lip.
Provenance
Part of the furnishings of Lord Jersey's office - 1782 Billiard Room