Archived Stock - This item is no longer available
A near-pair of English carved marble acorn finials
the ovoid top with semi-lobed ornament, raised on a socle foot and a cuboid base with panelled sides, blind to the reverse
SOLD OUT
Out of stock
These are curious and rather characterful finials. The acorn tops appear to be statuary marble – from the socle down they appear to be a different marble, or perhaps Istrian stone, and may well have been matched – work that appears to have been done a long time ago. The carving of the panelled base is crudely done.
Shrublands Hall in Coddenham was built in the early 1770’s by James Paine; the parkland was styled by Sir Humphry Repton. The house was re-modelled in the 1830’s by John Gandy-Deering and later by Sir Charles Barry. Requisitioned in both World wars by the MoD the house became a Health Clinic, briefly a hotel, and was finally carved up into apartments in 2010.
Recently Viewed Items
-
Figure by Georges Braque, Verve Vol 2 / No. 5-6.
£800Figure by Georges Braque, Verve Vol 2 / No. 5-6.
The Verve Review was a purposefully luxurious. It ran from 1937 to 1960, but with only 38 editions available, due to the high degree of design and editorial work dedicated to each issue. Each edition contained unique lithographic prints, commissioned by the editor, and each cover a double-page lithograph elaborated by one of the artists contained within. It was the brainchild of its editor Stratis Eleftheriades, a Greek National who moved to Paris in the early thirties to take part in the growing Modernist movement, writing under the name of Teriade.£800 -
20th century floral still-life
-
An early Victorian copper and wrought iron weathervane
£1,185An early Victorian copper and wrought iron weathervane
the pennant vane (later) modelled in sheet steel, the indices mounted on a round-section standard set in a sandstone pedestal,£1,185