Lot 317

An unusual Regency cast iron gueridon In the manner of Thomas Hope

Auction: 21 March 2007 at 11:00 GMT
£2,331
Description
the circluar top with flat edge, inset with a central bronzed medallion depicting Virgil reading to seated figures beneath a flaming brazier inscribed: VIRGILIVS APVD MECENATEM TVA MECENAS HAVD MOLLIA JVSSA, the fluted Ionic-style column surmounted by a winged sphinx and applied with a small figure of a lizard with prey between its jaws above an anthemion cast surbase of three inscrolling monopaediae with claw feet on a triform plinth base
Dimensions
36cm diameter, 76 high
Footnote
Provenance: Cairness House.
